Articles tagged with: search

Top 20 Popular Search Sites and Naver Matome

Date: February 28, 2013 Author: Motoko Hunt

Donnamedia announced the top 20 popular search related sites by page views in Japan for the month of January 2013.

  1. Yahoo Search
  2. Google Japan
  3. YouTube
  4. NicoVideo
  5. @nifty
  6. Google
  7. Live.com
  8. Biglobe
  9. Bing
  10. Livedoor
  11. OCN
  12. Infoseek Rakuten
  13. excite
  14. Naver Matome
  15. goo
  16. All About
  17. So-net
  18. OKWave
  19. DailyMotion
  20. Vector

It also reports that Yahoo search had 6.1% increase in page view, and Google Japan had 7.4% increase in page view month-over-month.

Naver Matome, which ranked  in #14, is a popular CGM web curation service started in 2009. According to Nielsen NetView

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It’s time for Global SEO 2.0

Date: October 3, 2012 Author: Motoko Hunt

When I created AJPR back in 1998, there really wasn’t a concept of the global SEO out there. If thought of at all it was considered more of the localization project than the search engine marketing project, and that the SEO on language specific pages was an afterthought in their marketing process.  Localization and the SEO were tackled for each market separately. Considering the limited information we had about the search engine marketing outside the US, the lack of the tools, especially analytics tools, that could provide us with the site performance globally, there was not much of choice but to manage SEO separately, if at all.

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Still Searching

Date: April 4, 2012 Author: Motoko Hunt

I didn’t write much here last year. It’s not that I didn’t have anything to say. In fact, I had a lot to say, and expressed my idea, opinions, etc. at other sites (including ClickZ.asia), events, and conferences. It’s also been expressed in social channels. If you are interested in my articles, please see a list here. One of the articles, “How to get more value from your on-site search data” was particularly well received, and later re-published on Mashable.

Social media, mobile, local, apps, cloud, e-commerce, big site, big brand, etc., while it’s important to understand each media, I’m curious about

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Key Points in Launching a Global Website – SES NY Day 1

Date: March 9, 2011 Author: Motoko Hunt

On the day 1 of SES NY this year, I am presenting for “Key Points in Launching a Global Website” session from 4:15pm. Effectively managing a website targeting your local market is one thing, and managing a website (or websites) targeting multiple market is definitely another. I am going to show some data, examples and how-to information that come from my experiences in working with clients who have multinational and global websites.

Global search session: SES NY 2011

Here’s the session description:

As the world becomes smaller and search marketing becomes more complex, the era of “ranking well in Google” is over. This is especially true for companies who are targeting multiple markets or countries. This new opportunity also brings many new complexities to be considered other than standard SEO.

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