Interview with Aaron Wall about International SEO and Global Search

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 ...

LogZ Free Log Analyzer for User-Agent and IP Detection

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 ...

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... 

Internationalization & Localization

International SEO

Duplicate Content Problems and Solutions

Duplicate Content Problems and Solutions

Google recently issued an official opinion regarding duplicate content in an article titled Demystifying the “duplicate content penalty.” They emphasized the fact that... 

More About Search Engine Optimization

Global Search Engine Marketing News

Was Twitter coerced by Google to remove links?

Was Twitter coerced by Google to remove links?

In an attempt to remove potential benefits users can get from their social media profiles, Twitter.com joined the crowd of companies providing services, but not allowing their users to obtain any gains, like a simple dofollow link back to their sites, for their content creation efforts. Twitter recently removed all possibilities to pass link juice in... 


LogZ Free Log Analyzer for User-Agent and IP Detection

LogZ Free Log Analyzer for User-Agent and IP Detection

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... 


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

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... 


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... 


International Search Engine Optimization in Spanish