Author Archives: David Isaac Lewallen

Goodby Google China

 
Google redirected google.cn to google.com.hk or Google Hong Kong.
 
Posted in Chinese SEO | 1 Comment

Google, China and Censorship

 
The only good thing I can foresee is that they are simply doing this as a marketing tactic to get more visibility with the Chinese searchers.
Posted in Chinese SEO | 2 Comments

TLD Country Codes and Hosting for international SEO

The best option when targeting a specific country with your international SEO effort is to have the Country Code TLD as well as having your website hosted in that country, i.e. http://www.bonjour.fr hosted in France. If you can’t get hosting in the country for whatever reason, the second best option is to have the country [...]
Posted in SEO | 8 Comments

Link Building with Yahoo, SEO Quake & Tor

          I’m not sure if this is old news or not but its good news for Link Building. I just discovered a great consolidation of tools that helps with link building. The two tools are Yahoo Site Explorer and SEO Quake.   While doing a backlink check on my site in [...]
Posted in International Link Building | 10 Comments

Link Building for a French Website

When building links for a .com targeting the US, you have so many options for building links… Directories Blog commenting Article sites Social media sites….. However for a specific country TLD like a .fr the possibilities are so constrained. Not only do you have to search for sites located in France but you also are [...]
Posted in French SEO | 4 Comments
  • David Isaac Lewallen

    Hi and Welcome. My experience is in optimizing the web presence for fortune 1,000 companies for online marketing disciplines including International Web Marketing Strategy, Web Development, SEO, PPC, Usability, Analytics and Social Media.
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