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13 Social Networks That are a Big Deal in Non-English Speaking Regions

When it comes to social media, thinking globally means thinking beyond the English language. The usual suspects—Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter—may not be relevant to the people you’re trying to reach around the world. Finding your target market is important to creating a solid social media strategy. If some or all of your target market […]

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Channel: Industry, SearchCap, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Barry Schwartz Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land’s News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on social media at @rustybrick, +BarrySchwartz and Facebook. For more background information on Barry, see his full bio and

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Using non-English URLs for non-English websites is fine

Channel: SEO, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google Senior Webmaster Trends Analyst John Mueller said in a recent SEO snippets video that using non-English URLs for non-English websites is fine and that Google is able to crawl, index and rank them. This includes non-Latin characters in your URLs. John Mueller said “as long as URLs are valid and unique, that’s fine.” He added,

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Google updates quality raters guidelines with details around non-English language web pages

Channel: SEO, Google: Search Quality Raters, Google: SEO, SEO BLOG / Good To SEO

Google updated their search quality raters guidelines PDF document a few days ago. Jennifer Slegg first noticed and documented most of the changes between this updated version and the March version, which focused on upsetting and offensive content. The core change, according to Jennifer Slegg, is the new guidelines around non-English language pages. “This update

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