Barcelona

SEO in a Google Voice Search world

The voice Search revolution is here. Large tech companies such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft are placing smart voice assistants on our phones and in our homes, changing the way we search for content and complete tasks online. Ale's session will focus on optimising for Google voice assistant, showing how the search giant understands and treats voice queries compared to text-based search. He will provide valuable insights on how to optimise your content for voice search and voice actions. Ale will also discuss Google assistant's language capabilities, specifically looking at how it processes the differences between varieties of the same language.

Ale Agostini - Bruce Clay Inc.

Reputation on SERPs: how to focus on what really matters

The first thing potential customers do after hearing about your brand or seeing an ad is to Google your brand name... could you afford to leave your online reputation to chance? Measuring reputation efforts on search engines help brands to discover what could potentially be damaging people’s perception when they are proactively looking for information on search engines. Esther will explain the importance of online reputation from the SEO perspective, how to analyse the real impact of online negativity (negativity index), and the kind of strategies you can develop to improve it. She also will share real-life examples from international projects, the unique challenges faced in each country and how to manage them.

Esther Azcano Valdes - Tribal Worldwide

AI vs human translation for internationalisation and relaunches

Artificial intelligence (AI) has not only changed the way many industries operate today; it has also made a significant impact in the translation world. However, it is important for businesses to understand its limitations. Gianna will provide insights into the different processes involved in AI and human translation, how to decide the best option for your website, the pitfalls to avoid when going international, as well as the ethics of AI on the web.

Gianna Brachetti-Truskawa – Bold ventures

Putting the social into social search engines

"A lot of the Asian search engines like Naver and Baidu are known as ‘social search engines’ because they have a social aspect that is missing from Google. This session will look at why social media should be a vital part of the strategy to improve SEO results on these search engines and how companies should approach a combined SEO and social media strategy.

Daiana Damacus – Webcertain

How to effectively expand into multiple markets

There is so much opportunity to be gained from expanding to new markets and reaching a wider audience, however rolling out a website in multiple languages is not an easy task. Over the last 3 years, GoEuro has been rapidly expanding its user reach within Europe and beyond, localising the website in more than 15 languages, 6 in this year alone.

In this session, International SEO Manager Ciara will share insights on how the team approached this task and lessons learned along the way. She’ll share tips and advice for any business developing websites and campaigns for new markets.

Ciara Serrano Tempradon - GoEuro Travel

Migrating International Websites

Migrating your website can be a great business move, but if you fail to consider how search engines will react to this move, you are almost certain to take a major hit in organic search traffic. Aleyda will share reasons for migrating international websites, the most common scenarios, best practices and expected results.

Aleyda Solis - Orainti

International link building - Tactics, tools and tips

Link acquisition is a key offsite ranking factor for any site looking to increase organic visibility. Different countries naturally adopt different cultures and as such engage with different news stories, different formats of content, and advocate brands in different ways. What works in one country might not be the same for all. Marketers need to not only be aware of customer behaviour in each region, but also what stories will gain the links they need from media. Using a mixture of real-life examples, David will share actionable advice on how to build links in different countries, what tools marketers need to be using and tips on how to gain national media links in multiple territories.

David White – Branded3

Big in Japan – How to succeed with PPC in Japan (without understanding Japanese)

Expanding into a new market can be an effective way to grow your business but it involves a great deal of market research and planning driven by an evaluation of your internal capabilities including whether to manage the campaigns in-house or partner with an agency.

Fabian shares how Chrono24 successfully grew its business in Japan, the 4th largest watches market in the world from a relatively unknown brand. His talk will cover how to achieve quick wins in a new market, budget planning, deciding which search engine(s) to use and how to improve campaign performance.

Fabian Wiede – Chrono24