SEO Interviews

Interview with Aaron Wall about International SEO and Global Search

Interview with Aaron Wall about International SEO and Global Search

August 11, 2008 · 4 comments 

I have the pleasure of starting the SpanishSEO interview section with someone who is a leading voice in the SEO arena and a name I am sure many of you will know and respect as much as I do. SEO expert Aaron Wall recently shared with me his perspectives on International SEO, Global Marketing strategies and other important SEO and online marketing issues that I am sure you will all find very useful, interesting and core to your global internationalization plans. I have been fortunate to actively exchange local and international... 

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LogZ Free Log Analyzer for User-Agent and IP Detection

LogZ Free Log Analyzer for User-Agent and IP Detection

July 9, 2008 · Leave a comment 

LogZ is a Free Log Analyzer developed in php that retrieves data from raw log files and organizes it in an easy yet relevant way for further analysis. LogZ works with any Apache combined log file format. Now you can know exactly which bots and crawlers visit your website. Our Free Log Analyzer tabulates data on User-Agents (UA), the number of visits they made, and shows their IP Addresses or Hostnames. LogZ also provides additional tools to perform Reverse and Forward DNS Lookups, get the Whois information of a Domain... 

How-To Series

How to Identify User-Agents and IP Addresses for Blocking Bots and Crawlers

How to Identify User-Agents and IP Addresses for Blocking Bots and Crawlers

July 3, 2008 · 2 comments 

In a prior post I explained the main reasons why to block undesirable bots, scrapers and crawlers in order to prevent content stealing, malware injection, and vulnerability scanning in a website. If you haven’t read that post I encourage you to do so. One of the solutions provided was a change to the .htaccess file to block crawlers based on User-Agent or IP Address. As a result, folks were asking me how to identify which User-Agent (UA) or IP Address to block? I am going to walk you through the log analysis process, show... 

Spanish SEO

About Us

About Us

May 3, 2008 · Leave a comment 

SpanishSEO is a Search Engine Marketing Firm located in Denver, Colorado that provides Professional SEO Consulting Services in International SEO, Website Globalization and Spanish Search Engine Optimization. We target exclusively the Latino and Hispanic markets predominately in the USA, but also Latin America and Spain. Our team has many years of combined experience in International Business, e-Commerce, Website Optimization as well as Global Search. In simple terms, SpanishSEO is the powerhouse for all your Latino and Hispanic... 

Web Globalization

Who Leads the Global Web Strategy, Search Marketing Firms or Translation Companies?

Who Leads the Global Web Strategy, Search Marketing Firms or Translation Companies?

For years there has been dissociation between Translation/Web Globalization companies and Search Engine Marketing (SEM)/Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms. That gap finally... 

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International SEO

Understanding Search Behavior and Search Engine Technology

Understanding Search Behavior and Search Engine Technology

Search can be a complex process depending on the Search Engine, search modifiers, and other factors. Each Search Engine has different parameters that affect the retrieval of information. Similarly,... 

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Global Search Engine Marketing News

Domain Names Move Towards Geo Targeting and Multi Languages

Domain Names Move Towards Geo Targeting and Multi Languages

One of the most transcendental changes in the last forty years of Internet history is about to happen in the second quarter of 2009 after ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, approves the implementation plan to add many new names to the Internet. At the 32nd meeting in Paris, the Board of ICANN approved on June 26, 2008 the... 

Practical Solutions for Blocking Spam, Bots and Scrapers

Practical Solutions for Blocking Spam, Bots and Scrapers

Spam has become a major problem for many of us that deal with content development on a regular basis. It takes different forms, affects performance and compromises the security of a site. There are bots that specialize in spamming by inserting links and unsolicited information in input fields and forms of websites. The comment section of a blog, subscription... 

International Search Engine Optimization in Spanish