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THINK GLOBAL
ACT LOCAL
GLOCALISE YOUR ONLINE MARKETING
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LETS TALK ABOUT
• Glocalisation of your site
• Local citations
• Local link acquisition
• Q&A
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I’M JON. NICE TO MEET YOU
• Launched 1st Ecommerce Site:1997
• Founded web dev agency: 2000
• Focussed on SEO: 2007
• Part of a creative, clever team
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HE’S JOSH
• Local & Mobile Specialist
• He’ll pitch in ideas in the Q&A
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NOISY LITTLE MONKEY
• UK based Search & Social Media Agency
• Mission: Unlock Potential, Online
• Our clients should fire us in a year
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THE COMPANY WE KEEP
• £5m - £750m Turnover
• Ecommerce
• Retail
• Manufacturing
• Engineering
• Legal
• Recruitment
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GLOCALISE YOUR SITE
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“en-GB”
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“en-GB”
en = English
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“en-GB”
GB = Great Britain
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“en-GB”
This content is for English speakers in Great Britain
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“en-US”
This content is for English speakers in the USA
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LANG ATTRIBUTE
lang=“es-USA”
WRONG! DON’T MAKE UP COUNTRY CODES
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USE ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes
• Find yours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
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WRONG
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RIGHT
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RIGHT
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MULTIPLE SITES
TARGETING MULTIPLE LOCATIONS & LANGUAGES
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MULTI-REGION BEST PRACTICE
URL: www.name.com/gb/
lang = en-GB
alternate = www.name.com/us/
alternate = www.name.com/de/
URL: www.name.com/us/
lang = en-US
alternate = www.name.com/en/
alternate = www.name.com/de/
URL: www.name.com/de/
lang = de
alternate = www.name.com/en/
alternate = www.name.com/us/
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/multilingual-and-multinational-site.html
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www.asos.com
www.asos.com/ru/
www.asos.com/es/
www.asos.com/it/
www.asos.com/au/
www.asos.fr
us.asos.com
www.asos.de
Lots of Domain Authority,
easily passed between
country sites
Little Domain Authority,
less likely to be passed to
other country sites
Little Domain Authority,
less likely to be passed to
other country sites
Little Domain Authority,
less likely to be passed to
other country sites
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www.asos.com/en/
www.asos.com/ru/
www.asos.com/es/
www.asos.com/it/
www.asos.com/au/
www.asos.com/fr/
www.asos.com/us/
www.asos.com/de/
Lots of Domain Authority,
easily passed between
country sites
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www.asos.com/en/
www.asos.com/ru/
www.asos.com/es/
www.asos.com/it/
www.asos.com/au/
www.asos.com/fr/
www.asos.com/us/
www.asos.com/de/
https://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
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LOCAL SCHEMA
BECAUSE AMIT’S BUILDING A STAR TREK COMPUTER
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HELP POPULATE THE KNOWLEDGE GRAPH
We’re proud of our first baby
step—the Knowledge Graph—
which will enable us to make
search more intelligent, moving
us closer to the "Star Trek
computer" that I've always
dreamt of building.
http://googleblog.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/introducing-knowledge-graph-things-not.html
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LOCAL SCHEMA = TRAFFIC WIN
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LOCAL BUSINESS SCHEMA
https://schema.org/LocalBusiness
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CONSISTENT NAP ON GMB
BECAUSE AMIT’S WORKING AT GOOGLE
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GMB = GOOGLE MY BUSINESS
Schema must EXACTLY match your GMB page:
Name
Address
Phone Number
Opening Hours
Logo
Profiles (social)
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OPENING HOURS
Mo-Fr 09:00-17:30 (as https://schema.org/openingHours )
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CONSISTENT NAP-OLP ON GMB
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LOCAL BUSINESS MICRODATA
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LOCAL BUSINESS JSON
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EMBED MAP FROM YOUR GMB PAGE
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WITHOUT SCHEMA, IF IT MATCHES
YOU MIGHT BE OK. FOR A WHILE.
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CONSISTENT NAP-OLP
CITATIONS
BECAUSE LOCAL
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LOCAL CITATIONS
Consistent
Name
Address
Phone Number
Opening Hours
Logo
Profiles (social)
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TRUSTWORTHY LOCAL CITATIONS
INCLUDING NAP-OLP
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COMMON NAP INCONSISTENCIES
Name:
Noisy Little Monkey
Noisy Little Monkey Ltd
Phone:
0117 327 0171
01173 270 171
+44 1173 270 171
Address:
Bristol
Bristol, Avon
Address:
Gas Ferry Rd
Gasferry Rd
Gasferry Road
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SIGN UP FOR TRIALS
https://www.brightlocal.com/
https://moz.com/local
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GET LOCAL BACK LINKS
BECAUSE LOCAL
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OLD SKOOL SEO
• Analyse backlinks to URLs
that perform well
in Local Pack
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OLD SKOOL SEO
• Download backlink info
to Root domain
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EZ XL
• Find all linking URLs
containing local place names
• Also gives you an idea of
the overall DA
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MAJESTIC MAPS
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DO STUFF IRL
IT’S HARD TO BEAT
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BE BRILLIANT. ASK FOR REVIEWS
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GMB
GIVE AWAY
YOUR BEST
BLOGS
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GMB
HOST MEET
UPS
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SPONSOR LOCAL NETWORKING EVENTS
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BE NICE
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TAKE AWAYS
• Get your (international) house in order. Even if you’re only local
• Use Local Business Schema on each location page of your site
• Audit the consistency of your NAP-OLP citations & fix them
• Do good stuff in real life to get highly relevant local back links
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