international website optimisation - brighton digital festival 2014
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Export online and increase international enquiries and sales. Find out why you should optimise your website for international trade and how to plan your international online export strategy. Event: Brighton Digital Festival 2014 Location: Brighton Date: 25 September 2014 Speaker: Sarah Carroll Company: Grow Global On behalf of: UKTITRANSCRIPT
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Brighton Digital FestivalWebsite Optimisation for International
TradeSarah Carroll – 25 September 2014
@growglobal @ukti_londonse @brightondigital #exportonline #bdf14
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Objectives
• Make your website visible internationally
• Attract more international website visitors
• Convert international visitors into sales
Increase global revenue
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The International Web Opportunity
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Billions of people in the world
• 5 billion = 1987
• 6 billion = 1999
• 7 billion = 2012
• 8 billion = 2026
• 9 billion = 2042
Source: US Census Bureau - http://www.census.gov/population/international/data/worldpop/table_population.php (projected figures)
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From many different countries
Argentina – Australia – Austria – Belgium – Brazil –
Canada – China – France – Germany – India – Indonesia –
Italy – Japan – Mexico – Netherlands – Norway –
Poland – Russia – Saudi Arabia – South Africa – South
Korea – Spain – Sweden – Switzerland – Taiwan –
Thailand – Turkey – United Arab Emirates – United
Kingdom – USA
7 billion people in the world
Source: Top countries by GDP (Wikipedia, IMF)
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The world is on the web
Internet users in the world by region
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AsiaAmericasEuropeAfricaOceania
1.3 billion internet
users in Asia
Source: Internet Live Stats www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/#byregion
Estimated internet users are 2,925,249,355 by 1 July 2014
ASIA
OCEANIAAFRICA
EUROPE
AMERICAS
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… in many different countries
Rank Country Internet users (millions)
1 China 642
2 United States 280
3 India 243
4 Japan 109
5 Brazil 108
6 Russia 84
7 Germany 72
8 Nigeria 67
9 United Kingdom 57
10 France 55
List of Top 10 countries by internet usage – July 2014 estimate
Source: www.internetlivestats.com/internet-users/#byregion
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It’s not just in English
Top 10 languages of internet users
Source: Internet World Stats www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm
Estimated Total internet users are 2,099,926,965 on 31 May 2011 Copyright © 2000-2012 Miniwatts Marketing Group
Korean
Russian
French
Arabic
German
Portuguese
Japanese
Spanish
Chinese
English
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450 500 550 600 650 700
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60
60
65
75
83
99
165
510
565
Millions of Users
Chinese internet users
to overtake English language
users by 2015
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Why internationalise?
70% of online search enquiries
are not in English (source: Oban Multilingual)
Customers are four times more
likely to buy from a website in
their own language (source: IDC)
Visitors stay twice as long if a website is in
their own language (source: Forrester Research)
90% of European internet users
visit websites in their own language
(source: EU EuroBarometer)
Web-savvy SMEs brought in twice
as much revenue through exports than those using internet sparingly
(source: McKinsey SME survey)
Cross-border onlinetrade will increase sevenfold by 2020
(source: OC&C & Google)
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Are You Visible On The International Web?
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Search is global
“Every day
Google answers more than one billion questions
from people around the globe
in 181 countries and 146 languages”
(source: www.google.com)
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Take the opportunity
“Don’t just focus on
1 country and 1 language.
Adapt your website and
optimise it for international trade”
(source: www.growglobal.com)
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Options For An International Web Strategy
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The international web journey
Get it right in English
Translate & localiseGive a global impression
Local country domains
Optimise in EnglishOptimise for other languages &
countries
UK website
in English
International website in English
Country pages
on .comLocal
country domains
Local country domains
Agent & distributor websitesLocal
country domain
s
Language
pages on .com
Country pages
on .com
Distributor &
stockists website
Online marketpla
ce
Social media
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global messages
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internationalsection
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one country-specific
page
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one language-specific
page
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localcountry
domains: France
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localcountry
domains: Germany
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localcountry
domains: UK
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localcountry
domains: Ireland
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localcountry
domains: Germany
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The international web journey
Get it right in English
Translate & localiseGive a global impression
Local country domains
Optimise in EnglishOptimise for other languages &
countries
UK website
in English
International website in English
Country pages
on .comLocal
country domains
Local country domains
Agent & distributor websitesLocal
country domain
s
Language
pages on .com
Country pages
on .com
Distributor &
stockists website
Online marketpla
ce
Social media
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Top international online marketplaces
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Top international social networking sites
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Next steps
Contact Sarah on 07711 132179 or [email protected] Apply for an Export Communications Review at www.gov.uk/export-communications-review
Take the first step to going international on the web today
Join a UKTI Web Optimisation for International Trade or UKTI E-commerce for International Trade Masterclass at www.growglobal.com/events
Join the new UKTI Passport to Export for E-Commerce programmewww.gov.uk/ukti
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Questions?
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