Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Writing a Spanish Blog as part of the Content Generation Campaign














Get a Better Spanish Language Search Engine Ranking by Starting a Spanish Blog

If your business is not targeting US Hispanics and Latin American markets you could be missing out on millions of potential customers. If you want to reach these potential customers, you need to use content generation to provide them with Spanish language information about your product or service. Once you have optimized your business' website for Spanish SEO, you should add to your total Spanish web content by writing and maintaining a blog.

Make Your Blog Match Your Keyword Focus

Even if your service or product is very specific, you can still generate plenty of content that corresponds to your keyword focus. If you are having difficulty thinking up topics, consider writing about the history behind your keyword. You are going to need to keep coming up with fresh approaches to your topic. If you have an idea during the day, jot it down. You can give your idea to your writers later and your content generation team will turn that idea into a blog post. If you already have an English language blog, make sure that you do not merely translate those blog entries into Spanish. You need to also make sure that your content is culturally relevant to your Spanish language audience.

Keep Your Blog Updated

You do not need to post fresh content every single day. That would be a huge time commitment. Even successful and popular blogs only update a few times each week. However, you should be adding new content fairly frequently. You want to keep your readers coming back. Ultimately, it is your decision how often you want to update your Spanish blog. My personal recommendation is that you update it at least once a week. Additionally, regular content creation will ensure that your blog has good rankings in blog directories and search engines.

Make Sure Your Content Is Fresh

Make sure that you are not simply repeating and rephrasing your existing blog content. Your content generation program should emphasize fresh information. Ask your writers to develop new topics that fit your overall emphasis. If you are not providing your readers with new information, they will quickly get bored. It is fairly easy to determine if a blog exists just for Spanish SEO purposes. Your blog should be a marketing tool, of course, but it should also be a real blog. Give your readers real and useful content, and you will gain loyal customers.

Get the Word Out about Your Blog

If your Spanish blog is just sitting in a corner of cyberspace unread, it is not going to add much value to your business. Once your blog has been filled with information through your content generation process, submit it to blog directories that specialize in Spanish web content. Of course, you should also submit your blog site to Spanish language search engines. Soon, potential customers will read your Spanish web content and will learn how valuable your company truly is.

For more information about writing and maintaining a Spanish blog, feel free to contact Hispanic Market Advisors.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

Reach Spanish-speaking Markets with Website Translations

For business owners, doctors, and other professionals, the importance of an interactive internet presence has become an indispensable way to attract and keep customers. As changes in market trends inevitable occur, businesses are able to easily adjust their marketing plans to successfully expand into growing market segments with websites often leading the marketing effort. One valuable emerging market trend is the growth of the Hispanic market in the United States which provides marketers with incredible insights and incentives to attract Spanish-speaking customers.

In the United States, the growing Spanish-speaking market which numbered 44.3 million US Hispanics in 2006, is expected to be as large as 60 million by next year with 55% of adult US Hispanics using the internet. Furthermore, with purchasing power projected to reach $1 trillion in 2010, businesses have a greater incentive to reach this large market segment to promote their products and services. In addition to their numbers, US Hispanics who use the internet are generally among the most educated and affluent out of the greater Hispanic population.

The challenge for businesses, especially those who generally operate locally like lawyers, doctors, and other professionals, is how to reach a large and profitable market that includes individuals who speak Spanish. With website translations, local doctors and other professionals, for example, will be able to attract clients through Spanish content that can be found easily on a search engine. The process of website translations is not nearly as daunting as it seems and can be effective in small doses. For instance, an efficient way to attract the Spanish-speaking market is to provide a landing or entry page carefully crafted in Spanish and optimized with key words that can drive website traffic and promote products and services as well. Alternatively, an FAQ page in Spanish, also optimized for web searches, can link to the landing page and provide another channel of communication and interaction with US Hispanics and a Spanish speaking audience. A good website translation will therefore serve promotional ends and will also achieve a certain degree of cultural marketing by speaking the language of a potential client.

In addition to the potential financial benefits of marketing to Spanish speakers, doctors and other professionals have the advantage of tapping into this market early enough to start work towards securing market share. Securing market share, of course, is largely dependent on ensuring that potential customers can find your website in the first place. In addition, the ensuing word of mouth effect can serve as a marketing multiplier as information is passed on to a customer’s peers who may not have access to the internet.

Clearly, the changing paradigms of marketing, largely driven by the internet, are developing into far more valuable and engaging tools like website translations to expand into Spanish-speaking markets. As a result of this ongoing sophistication in marketing, a successful business website is no longer a static collection of pictures and text but a fully interactive experience that should also engage the profitable US Hispanic market.

Please contact Hispanic Market Advisors for a free consultation on your English to Spanish website translation.

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Monday, October 19, 2009

Online Language Preferences for US Hispanic Community

The online business community has grown expediently, over the past few years, bringing more and more consumers from all over the world online including the US Hispanic community. Recent studies from market research firms indicate the US Hispanic speaking community is one of the largest search groups online. This market is not only searching the web using the English language, but also using their native language (e.g. Spanish) to search.

While many consumers today write and speak in English even though it is not their native tongue, they often will choose to search the web using their language preference. Up until a few years ago, it was common for US businesses online to offer the online community the ability to search, read, and communicate in the English language only. However, time has changed and consumers shopping and buying habits are constantly changing as well. Such behaviors demand that online companies optimize their search availabilities as well as, translating their landing pages to offer convenience and a customer-centric approach in languages other than English.

Customer-Centric Approach as a Win-Win Solution

A customer-centric approach is a tool businesses can use to enhance the way their customers feel about them. Customers, of course, are human beings with purchase power and word-of-mouth marketing control. We all want to feel included, listened to, important, and valued as a customer and as a business. Many companies today are leaning more toward its direction and drawing a bigger crowd of perspective customers who feel good about shopping on their site.

Today, many companies have had their website programmers translate their existing site into Spanish as well as optimizing their url to capture the consumer looking for their services in Spanish. Some of these companies have also implemented other translations and optimization techniques to amplify their broad spectrum of offerings to the world. These implementations broaden a company’s horizons by expanding their target audience thus, bringing more customers and clients to them as well as helping to secure profitability.

Since the web is available for just about anyone to access, provided they have an internet connection, businesses are rethinking their marketing strategies in order to attract and engage consumers and businesses worldwide. By offering simple marketing techniques such as website translations and optimizing their urls to trigger searches in Spanish, it is a win-win solution for all involved. Businesses gain a larger customer base, which in turn can increase profitability, and consumers feel important, appreciated, and acknowledged as a Spanish-speaking consumer.

All consumers interested in conducting web searches to easily locate, buy, communicate, and learn about a business services have plenty of businesses to choose from estimated well into the billions. So, if all online businesses want to attract and retain more customers worldwide then, they will need to optimize their sites to bring in the masses worldwide and stay competitive among their fellow competition.

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