Your company has been growing and growing, and at some point, you’ve decided to go global. You’ve defined your overall business strategy, you know which countries you are targeting and who you will be competing against in the new markets. Your next logical step would be to evaluate your SEO opportunities in your target locations and think about how your digital presence should be organized. In this how-to guide, we will show you how to plan your digital globalization with the help of Semrush and other marketing tools.
A domain extension could be a critical factor in Click-through Rate (CTR), traffic and ultimately it will affect your SEO. But we question if the new TLD extensions are a critical factor in improving the SERP of your website and if the risk to switch to them instead of fighting for a trusted domain.
Here are some proven ways a small business can ensure safety for itself and its customers. Incorporating serious security measures — SSL certificates, access control, two-factor authentication has become indispensable.
Back in 2009, the younger version of Matt Cutts explained: Now, in 2015, Google‘s John Mueller has come out with a slightly different statement: For search, specifically for geotargeting, the server‘s location plays a very small role, in many cases it‘s irrelevant. If you use a ccTLD or a gTLD together with Webmaster Tools, then we‘ll mainly use the geotargeting from there, regardless of where your server is located. You definitely don‘t need to host your website in any specific geographic location — use what works best for you, and give us that information via a ccTLD or Webmaster Tools.OK, John. I‘ll hold you to that one! Once I‘m done with Google, I‘ll check the results in other search engines as well. So, how is server location connected with top search results?
Looking to build an in-house SEO team setup for long term success? This SEO agency owner created a guide to show you how they would build an SEO team and what roles are necessary for success!
To improve your keyword research strategy in the upcoming year, check out the following recap of our Semrush Chat. Our chat guests discussed how to master various keyword research challenges in 2017.