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Making your website truly global --and no, we’re not talking about language
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Agenda Panelist introductions Staying close to your customer—literally! (Andy Atkins-Krüger) If web users can’t find it, it doesn’t exist (John Yunker) It’s all about location. Sort of. (Jay Webster)
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Presenters/Panelists Andy Atkins-Krüger, WebCertain Andy Atkins-Krüger John Yunker, Byte Level Research John Yunker Jay Webster, Quova Jay Webster
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STAYING CLOSE TO YOUR CUSTOMER— LITERALLY! Andy Atkins-Krüger
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Andy Atkins-Krüger, CEO, WebCertain Group Ltd Stockholm – Dubrovnik – London – Seattle – New York – Shanghai Oslo – Moscow – Mumbai – Berlin – San Jose – Reykjavik – Las Vegas Berlin – Manchester – Hamburg – Chicago – Munich – Hong Kong Managing Editor – www.multilingual-search.comwww.multilingual-search.com
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WebCertain Locations WebCertain AS Sales Scandinavia Oslo WebCertain Technical Centre Programming unit Kolkata WebCertain China Launch Autumn 2010 Beijing / Xiamen WebCertain Group World Language Hub Operations Centre United Kingdom WebCertain LLC Sales USA Los Angeles WebCertain Poland Sales operation Eastern Europe Wroclaw
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Today’s Quick Whizz 1.Local Rankings 2.Page Load Speed 3.Geo-targeting 4.Purchase and Payment Solutions
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Infrastructure Is Key
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Customers Like Webpages To Load Quickly
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Caching Systems Hide Things Where Does The Word Cache Come From?
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“If only we’d used a Local Domain”
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Watch Out for Duplication
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Potentially Duplicate Locales Create An Individual Language Flavour for Each Locale You Wish to Target No Index The Rest (If Duplication matters) Local Links Use Local Domains Search Engine Settings
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Payment Solutions Must Be Appropriate
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Credit Cards Are Not Universal
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Have A Heart For Ancient Input Methods
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Apply The 14 Language Test
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Summary Stand Next To Your Customer The Dash For The Cloud May Be Bad Infrastruture Planning Is Important Go Local
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IF WEB USERS CAN’T FIND IT, IT DOESN’T EXIST John Yunker
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Don’t overlook the global gateway
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Use the “sweet spot”
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Use a global icon
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Vs. Wave flags with caution
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Don’t play favorites
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Or favourites
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Don’t over-translate
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IT’S ALL ABOUT LOCATION. SORT OF. Jay Webster
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Maps and Pick Lists = too much work.
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Geo-target Customers: Localize Promotions
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Swimwear in the fog? Market products by a region’s climate. LondonSan Diego
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Easily Localize Currency, Target Offers, and automatically serve correct Language
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Location. The least interesting aspect of location.
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When we know where, we know more about who (while still respecting privacy)
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For example…
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OPEN DISCUSSION/Q&A Panelists and audience
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