41. QUESTIONS!
1 3
HOW CAN I DEVELOP AN
DO I HAVE
INTERNATIONAL
POTENTIAL?
2 SEO FRIENDLY
INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE?
HOW CAN I TARGET
MY INTERNATIONAL
AUDIENCE?
THE WORLD IS SMALLER THAN IT SEEMS
61. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International traffic
status
What's the volume and trend of conversions and the
conversion rate of visitors coming from other countries?
66. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International traffic
status
What's the traffic source of visitors coming from other
countries? Direct, organic, referrals?
81. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
How much visibility (Pageviews) does your Website
get from each international location?
86. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
Which Queries and Pages provide you this
International Visibility?
91. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
Does this visibility translate to clicks?
What’s the CTR from these International Locations?
96. POTENTIAL?
Do a quick Research with Google
Keyword Tool for the identified
Languages and Countries to
validate their keyword search
volume potential
101. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
What's the local monthly search volume for the relevant
keywords in each of the countries and languages?
106. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
Are there more suggested keyword ideas with a
high level of search volume?
111. POTENTIAL?
Check your site
International Search
Visibility with Google
Webmaster Tools
It’s the international audience distributed by language or
there’s enough search volume for each country?
121. POTENTIAL?
Do the potential traffic and conversions coming from these countries and languages compensate to
build an International version?
Yeah Nope
You can move on with an It might be still too early. You
International Web can secure the ccTLDs for the
development and SEO process! countries with higher potential
And also...
126. POTENTIAL?
Create Custom Alerts in Google
Analytics for the most important
countries or languages so you’re
notified when they bring you
enough traffic to compensate an
International Web Version for them
140. AUDIENCE?
LANGUAGE COUNTRY
Location is not a factor Location is a factor that Validate your type of
that influence your influence your Web International targeting (per
Web goals, products goals, products and
and content offering content offering language or country), not
vs only from a search but also
There’s not enough There’s enough traffic business perspective
traffic and conversion and conversion
potential to target potential to target
each country each country
separately separately
161. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
users for the desired
Which keywords they used and which pages they visited?
countries and languages.
168. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
users for the desired
Which services or products theycountries and languages.
ended-up buying?
175. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
users for the desired
What is the conversion volume and their conversion rate?
countries and languages.
189. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
What’s the search behavior users for the desired
and trend over the year
countries and languages.
for each of your product / service / content category?
196. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
What’s the seasonality of your products and services for
users for the desired
each country and language? How’scountries and languages.
it compared with your
current market?
203. AUDIENCE?
Get native language / country
support to develop local and
language relevant research.
Use tools like Lexipedia for
the markets you’re targeting
to identify the relevant
localized terms.
210. AUDIENCE?
Go back to Google Analytics
to identify the behaviour of
your current international
Which are the local terms you should use desired
users for the
for your
products, content and Website interface to connect with
countries and languages.
your audience?
217. AUDIENCE?
Use the SEOmoz keyword difficulty
tool to identify your competitiveness
along with your competitors for the
relevant keywords in the desired
markets
231. AUDIENCE?
Who are your main competitors for each desired
international market? Which are their USPs, content,
offering, functionality and user interface patterns?
Who are linking to them?
301. SITE?
1. Titles Descriptions
2. Support, Addresses Currency
3. International Versions Options
4. Navigational elements
5. Headings
6. Main Content
7. Reviews / Comments
Optimize and Localize each of your site elements for their markets
322. SITE?
Promote within the
international communities to
earn local popularity. Identify
influencers with Followerwonk
and popular competitors
content with Social Crawlytics.
329. SITE?
Track your international
rankings, traffic and
conversions over time.
Ranking tools like
SEscout, Authority Labs
and AWR support
international results.
330. TAKING YOUR SEO INTERNATIONAL
By following these guidelines you’re ready to
develop SEO friendly International Websites.
331. TAKING YOUR SEO INTERNATIONAL
IT WAS NOT THAT
DIFFICULT RIGHT?