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Competitive Strategies in
INTERNATIONAL SEARCH
PLACEMENT
JOHN COBURN
E. jcoburn@praxisnow.ie
T. 01-2360076
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1 SEO
National Search Targeting
If you are far from the enemy, make him
believe you are near
Sun Tzu
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1 : 40 Non-Brand-related
WEBSITE TRAFFIC
UNIQUE KEY-PHRASES
Source: Covario / NetConcepts
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Things that can impact Google’s
understanding of your target geography Domain Extension
Google Webmaster Domain Registration
Setting (generic TLD) Address
Hosting IP Address
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BEST .co.uk or generic: registered
and hosted in UK
GEOLOCATION Neighbourhood
Inbound Link Topology
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THEORETICALLY .co.uk or generic: registered
Ireland and geo-located to UK
EQUIVALENT
Neighbourhood
GEOLOCATION
Inbound Link Topology
NOTE: Not workable
with a .ie domain
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STILL AT HOME Dangers of replication!
Neighbourhood
GEOLOCATION
Inbound Link Topology
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What many Irish
DEFAULT Companies are doing:
Neighbourhood
GEOLOCATION Inbound Link Topology
NOTE: Can still compete
for unique brands, geo-
locator based terms and
unique search phrases
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Things that can impact Google’s
understanding of your target geography Domain Extension
Google Webmaster Domain Registration
Setting (generic TLD) Address
Neighbourhood Hosting IP Address
Inbound Link Topology
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SOME IMPLICATIONS OF
LOCATION-BASED SERPS
BASED ON INCREASINGLY GRANULAR GEO-LOCATION
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SEPARATE WEBSITES
(OR GEO-LOCATED SUB-DOMAINS)
DEPLOYED PER TARGET GEOGRAPHY
Contrary to popular opinion:
It’s not about buying up national key-
phrase based domains and redirecting
to your website.
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A “GEO-LOCATION STRATEGY”
IS REQUIRED
FOCUS ON EXTENDED / LONG-TAIL?
CITY-LEVEL TARGETING?
CATEGORY PAGES ONLY?
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ORIGINAL CONTENT
IS REQUIRED
DUPLICATE DESIGN /
EDIT CONTENT & KEY-PHRASE TARGETS
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“AUTHORITY” & KEY-PHRASE
TARGETING STRATEGY
IN HIGHLY COMPETITIVE SEARCH MARKETS
Entire website “authority”
focused on a narrow key-
phrase group Category Pages Only
TRAFFIC
Long-tail (lots of content)
KEY-PHRASE CLUSTERS
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL SEO
STRATEGIES
• USE OF MIXED MEDIA (optimised)
• MULTIPLE LOCATION ENTRIES IN GOOGLE
PLACES (incl. UK tel / fax etc..)
• LOCAL + ENGLISH + COLOQUIAL Key-phrase
Targeting
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2 PPC
Bigger Footprint than SEO | Instantaneous
BUT Expensive | 1:6 Click-Through Ratio | Has become sophisticated
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THE “OLD” PPC LONGTAIL
BEHIND THE TIMES?
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GOOGLE’S KEYWORD QUALITY SCORE
DETERMINES HOW MUCH YOU PAY PER CLICK + WHERE YOU ARE RANKED
GOOGLE’S KEYWORD
QUALITY SCORE CTR
QUALITY SCORE SCALE
1 - 10
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Source: Google
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“RELEVANCE”: A MORE USEFUL MODEL
€ Low Quality Score
Poor Alignment / High Competition
Medium Quality Score
Low CTR / (often) Low Competition
High Quality Score
High CTR / Good Alignment
LOW RELEVANCE HIGH
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IRISH SERP
(AdWords + Organic)
Search on:
fashion design
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E.G. UK SERP
“Search Shelf Space”
(AdWords + Organic)
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IRISH SERP
(AdWords + Organic)
REVISITED
Notice anything the same?
News entries? (and related photo)
Left-side Column
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IRISH SERP
(AdWords + Organic)
REVISITED
Notice anything different?
Less advertising competitors?
Less sophisticated advertising
methods being used?
Different media mix? (no videos)
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UK SERP
E.G.
REVISITED
“Search Shelf Space”
(AdWords + Organic)
Notice anything “evolved”?
Rich media in Organic results
“Silo” Search
Inclusion of “News” in organic
results
.com sourced search suggestions
Notice anything different?
Media mix (search shelf)
Advertiser sophistication &
functionality
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Number of Advertisers
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ADWORDS EXTENSIONS
Linking Your Campaign to:
GOOGLE PLACES GOOGLE MERCHANT CENTRE SITELINKS & PHONE EXTENSIONS
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In Summary
If you could do only three things in
PPC to improve your international
paid search footprint . . .
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International PPC
1. Understand New “Longtail” (using QS)
2. Use any & all techniques that
support geo-targeting (e.g. Link AdWords to a
local Google Places entry)
3. Keep pace with competitor
advertising (e.g. Reviews & Star Ratings)
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A CLOSING THOUGHT
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SEARCH TRAFFIC
... it leads to quality sales leadsearch traffic
- Specifically, high quality
IS ONLY USEFUL WHEN back of . . .
generation on the . .
A TRACKABLE
SEO COMPELLING VALUE
PROPOSITION
PPC
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Go n'éirí an t-ádh libh
COMPETITIVE STRATEGIES IN
INTERNATIONAL SEARCH
PLACEMENT
JOHN COBURN
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