Barcelona

Missed opportunities in international search

Many multinationals have seen huge successes and major fails in the pursuit of international glory. Drawing on his vast experience, working with some of the biggest global brands, Bill will look at some of these examples and highlight common areas of missed opportunity. He’ll also provide practical tactics and techniques to ensure efficiency and effectiveness across global markets. A fantastic opportunity to hear from one of the most knowledgeable international SEO practitioners in the world.

Bill Hunt – Back Azimuth Consulting

Optimising for voice search: How and Why

With voice search on the rise, more and more businesses are turning their attention to optimising for voice queries. SEAT is one such company, and Michiel will share some insights and learnings from a project to optimise for voice across 10 European markets, as well as the results of a study comparing Voice Search across UK, US, Spain and Germany.

Michiel Das - SEAT

SEO For Google's mobile-first index & mobile-friendly world

When Google announced that it would be switching to a “mobile-first” index for its search engine results, it sent waves of panic and confusion through site owners and SEOs alike. What did “mobile-first” mean? How would it affect the search engine results for my company and clients? Why was Google focusing on mobile when non-mobile websites still existed?

In this presentation, we’ll be discussing the definition of mobile-first indexing and how it’s different from “mobile only,” why Google is moving towards this strategy, and how to prepare your website on a content, site architecture, and inbound link level for the coming changes

Jeff Ferguson - Fang Digital Marketing

How to combine brand, PR, content and SEO to future-proof your international search rankings

SEO in the 90’s was mostly about content and fairly simple. In 2000’s the importance of links boomed and so did link spam fighting. In 2010’s it is the SERP that exploded with rich snippets and carrousels. What are 2020’s going to bring for SEO? Vistaprint has taken the bull by the horns and is actively preparing the future of SEO with an integrated approach to Brand / PR / Content / SEO. Areas of consideration include how are Content and PR serving SEO goals? How to take advantage of ever-evolving Serps and semantic search with Content & PR? How to build your Authority and eventually build your brand? In this session, Johann and Marie will go through early learnings, successes and challenges in preparing their global company for the future.

Johann Godey – Vistaprint

Marie Mure-Ravaud – Vistaprint

Going global on a shoestring PPC budget - a B2B case study

Your goal may be to build a global business, but your budget, unlike your plans, may be limited. This translates to a laser focus on generating leads, not just clicks. Jeroen Maljers will share how digital marketing reporting suite Swydo acquired customers in over 70 countries with a limited budget using PPC tactics including diligently monitoring and optimising campaigns several times a day, testing, leveraging all available PPC platform features and how to beat the competition.

Jeroen Maljers – Swydo

Yandex.Metrica: How to predict future conversions and double your revenue

Nowadays successful businesses need to use all the data they have available to continually optimize their online activity. Self-learning algorithms find patterns in data that yield business value and provide insights for improving campaign performance. Using case studies from a major online retailer, a DIY store and an airline booking service, Alexandra will demonstrate why and how to use a conversion prediction system and make interactions with your customers more effective and profitable.

Alexandra Kulachikova – Yandex Metrica

Deploying Amazon’s geo-targeting approach to improve global web performance

If you search for a product in the 'wrong' country in Amazon, somehow Amazon manages to correct it and still give you the right result. How do they do this? In this session, Andy will discuss how can you replicate this experience with your own site and with Google, and which tools can help you do so.

Andy Atkins-Krüger – Webcertain

Moving from a multi-ccTLD to a global gTLD strategy

Determining the most effective geo-targeting strategy for your business is one of the biggest challenges in international SEO. Eoghan will share insights into when it makes sense to consider moving from several country domains to a global strategy with one international domain. He will show some successful examples of such a move, make recommendations for the structure of the new global domain and give some technical advice for the migration itself.

Eoghan Henn – searchVIU

How to achieve global search success - Q&A with Google

Gary Illyes from Google will be discussing a range of topics relevant to global search marketers including geo-targeting, optimising for mobile and exploiting opportunities in less-developed markets.

Gary Illyes – Google