It’s been a buy time at Search Laboratory for industry events. At the end of last month we were honored to be given a speaker slot at Hero Conf London – the conference’s first time outside of the USA. Our President, Ian Harris, shared insights and best practice techniques on running international paid search campaigns in his talk entitled Optimum International Pay-Per-Click (PPC): Statistics vs. Linguistics.
The key takeaways from the talk were as follows:
- Research before market entry is paramount
- Find out what the search landscape looks like in your target market
- Simply translating your paid search campaigns can result in huge missed opportunities
- Consider cultural differences and what sort of messages work in your target market
- Landing pages need to be localized rather than translated, taking in factors such as payment methods, seasonality and appropriateness
- Central management of multiple language campaigns creates efficiencies
- Separate statistics from linguistics
For more information on international PPC contact us on +44 113 212 1211.
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