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Going GlobalExpanding into International PPCMaddie Cary | Director of Paid SearchPoint It Digital Marketing 07.06.2016
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About the Presenter
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Maddie CaryDirector of Paid Search@MaddieMarketer
Maddie Cary is the Director of Paid Search at Point It. Her role involves overseeing and developing an amazing team of PPC account managers, while also running the global SEM program for Point It’s largest client.
In 2015, she won the US Search Award for “Young Search Professional”, as well as was acknowledged as a “Rising Star in PPC” by both SearchEngineLand & PPC Hero. You can also find her speaking & learning at great conferences like SMX, HeroConf, & PubCon, or writing posts for the Wordstream blog.
Outside of PPC, her biggest loves are her family, friends, and her idol, Queen Beyoncé
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Today, you’re going to walk away with
WHERE
should you do
international PPC?
WHAT
do international consumers
expect?
WHEN
do international consumers
convert?
HOWcan you create a
successful international
PPC program?
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WHERESHOULD YOU DO INTERNATIONAL PPC?
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May feel like you’re doingthis with a globe…
•Geo•LanguageTargeting
•Google•Bing•International Publishers Naver, Baidu, Yandex, Yahoo JP ,etc
Publisher
•PPC•Social•Display
Channel
•Text Ads•Shopping (PLA)•Dynamic Product Ads (DPA)
Tactic
There are a lot of options!
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Can’t approach INTL PPC like it’s US with a *language twist*
PRINCIPLE #1
Keywords ≠ just words you translate
Keywords = INTENT
Keywords tell you something about your
audience and shouldn’t be treated as 1:1
between any language
PRINCIPLE #2
Localization ≠ Translation
Whenever possible, use native language speakers
to review copy
Consider regional dialects, flow of text, respecting
culture, nuance, & slang
If you can’t attain trust, you won’t drive conversions
PRINCIPLE #3
INTL ≠ your US model
Different business groups per market often doesn’t
scale, Lose communication, knowledge sharing, &
agility
Every market = unique performance =
unique goals
But ONE SIZE DOESN’T FIT ALL
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Let’s ask ourselves some questions
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YES!Considering INTL?
Maybe you’d like to use PPC to determine if you should expand
into a market
Can’t do itCan’t deliver, can’t sell –
some sort of roadblock? INTL PPC likely not the
right fit for you
MAYBE NOAlright!
Focus on a lower-funnel, high intent
keyword strategy to achieve the best ROI/CPA
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YES!“I have one landing page for all global traffic…but
it’s in English”
Welp, that’s not going to
work everywhere…
“I don’t want to build them until I know where
I want to target”
OK, I get that. Let’s keep trying to
figure that out
SORT OF? NOIdeally, you have LPs or
separate sites per geo & language
???
?
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• Search interest trend charts (since 2004)• Interest by geo (Country, Region, City)• Related searches, top queries, and rising queries
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Search Engine Country Market ShareEngine vs. Google
Difficulty Local Required?
Russia MEDIUM NO
South Korea HARD PREFERRED
Japan MEDIUM NO
China VERY HARD MUST HAVE
China VERY HARD MUST HAVE
China VERY HARD MUST HAVE
Czech Republic MEDIUM NO
57% 26%
56% 35%
52% 48%
80% >5%
9% >5%
6% >5%
38% 55%
Don’t waste time here! Low population + usage
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WHATDO INTERNATIONAL CONSUMERS EXPECT?
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Don’t run PPC that makes international searchers react like this:
You need to know your audience
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Each country’s population has a preferred way to pay
• US• Canada• UK
• China• Taiwan• Italy
• Brazil• LATAM• CEE
• Russia• CZ• CA
• US• UK
• Korea• APAC
Credit Cards Cash / COD Installments In-Store PayPal Mobile e-Payments
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Do searchers look for…
24 Hour turn-around?Free Shipping?
Minimum purchase amount?
What does the market’s
penetration look like?
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I know we’re all sick of the word mobileBut in many countries, mobile devices
are the main way they get online. They aren’t using desktop or laptop devices
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WHENDO INTERNATIONAL CONSUMERS CONVERT?
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Not every country goes wild over Black Friday
But there are important online holidays & seasonal periods
to mark on your PPC calendar!
Don’t miss key conversion windows!
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• Singles’ Day (early November)China
• Buen Fin (mid-November)Mexico
• Click Frenzy (mid-November)AU & NZ
• Black Friday/Cyber Monday US, CA, UK, AU, FR, DE
• Cyber Monday (mid-December)Japan
• Boxing Day (Dec 26th)UK, CA, AU, some Western EU
Holiday Season
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People are online holiday shopping earlier every year!Don’t wait until right before Black Friday/Cyber Monday to start
messaging for holiday
Also be ready for online shopping conversion drop off after shipping windows close and people move to offline to get gifts
on time for Christmas
Holiday Season
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January
CA
March
USEurope
AU/NZ
MY
IN JP
June July - Sept Nov - Dec
BR
Back to School
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Mon, 10AMPhiladelphia, PA, US
SPRING
Tues, 3AMSydney, AU
AUTUMN
Don’t forget to factor in
hemisphere differences when
considering time of day,
promo times, and even
seasonal ad messaging!
Northern Hemisphere Southern Hemisphere
Differences by Hemisphere
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HOWCAN YOU CREATE A SUCCESSFULINTERNATIONAL PPC PROGRAM?
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Starting from scratch!
Got an INTL PPC program,
but need to centralize
Where are you starting from?
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GO GLOBAL!Launch a Rest of World campaign
with just your Brand keywords
• Exclude markets/regions more prone to “junk” traffic (Middle East, some of CEE, Africa, India)
• Keep budgets low
• Add negatives regularly
• Collect initial data, then pull geos from Dimensions report
Starting from scratch?
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Decentralized Model
US UKBusiness Group
PPC Team PPC Team
PPC Team PPC Team
Need to Centralize?
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Decentralized Model
USBusiness Group
x 10 MORE
CA UK AU FR DE JP SG
x 10 MORE
THIS MODELDOESN’T SCALE.
IT DOESN’T SUPPORT GROWTHNeed to Centralize?
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Decentralized Model
US CA UK AU FR DE JP SG
This model isn’t impossible, but it’s much more difficult to manage & grow
• Communication siloed
• Knowledge & best practice sharing limited or non -existent
• Agile deployment challenging
• No centralized owner of goals and global results monitoring
Need to Centralize?
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Centralized Model
US CA UK AU FR DE JP SG
• Shared goals & mission
• Shared learnings & best practices
• Shared international PPC knowledge!
= scalable, efficient revenue growth!
Need to Centralize?
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LIGHTNING ROUND!INTERNATIONAL PPC TIPS & TRICKSTOP 10 MARKETS/REGIONS
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• One of the easiest global expansions you can do
• More tolerant of American websites & content
• While they do their research online, prefer to buy in brick & mortar stores
• Canadians love (and demand) free shipping
• Also very in tune with US online shopping holidays & deals
• Canada is bilingual country!• 57% English• 22% Canadian French (different from France!)• 2% Chinese• Up to 20% are bilingual in English + French
CANADA (CA)
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• Just because English speaking doesn’t mean easy win --very competitive in all sectors of online marketing, especially PPC
• One of the most active e-commerce markets globally
• Most comfortable with online grocery shopping
• Biggest mistake is thinking US English = UK English . Be especially careful with your ad copy, landing page copy, and building keyword lists with words that don’t register with British
• Google will often roll out algorithm changes or SERP testing to the UK before or following the US, so keep an eye on that!
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)
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• One of the most mature online markets global
• Germany, Austria, Switzerland ≠ same!
• Germans value quality over low or perceived “cheap” prices
• Make your landing experience feel as “German” as possible, with German domain & content
• Germans don’t use the word “mobile” or “phone”, but most commonly use “handy”
GERMANY (DE)
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• French want the lowest price – where they find it not crucial to them
• Very prideful of their language and not likely to use English
• Set apart from rest of Europe by importance they place on product pictures
• French also more likely to use longer search queries
FRANCE (FR)
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• Ireland ≠ UK! +4-8% traffic by expanding targeting
• Swiss aren’t price sensitive, skew more affluent
• Dutch care deeply about saving money
• Netherlands & Belgium are a lingual stew
• Be wary of referring to all of Netherland as Holland (some regions are offended or don’t identify)
WESTERN & NORTHERN EUROPE
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• Latin American Spanish ≠ European Spanish
• Spain is one of the most mature mobile markets in the world, with an above 85% mobile penetration
• Scandinavians top video & mobile users
• Italians identify with classy, sophisticated brands and also prefer formal language in copy
• Italians also use internet mostly in afternoon & evenings
WESTERN & NORTHERN EUROPE
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• Sophisticated web users , competitive search landscape
• One of highest mobile using countries
• Vast distances between areas, therefore second in per capitae-commerce spending
• Used to buying foreign brands, loyal to Aussie/Kiwi brands
• Price sensitive, but often buy “local” for a little more $
AUSTRALIA (AU)
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• Used to busier advertising layouts and ad formats
• Trust is critical, especially since Japanese very loyal to Japanese brands
• Big time video consumers
• Mobile shopping happens during commuting hours
• Japanese has 4 character sets – searches frequently mingle EN & JP keyword hybridization important
JAPAN (JP)
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• Similar stages of economic development
• Currency issues in conversion against dollars
• Marketplaces drive most of e-commerce traffic
• Test careful geo-targeting around metropolitan cities
• Local payment types especially important
• Rapid mobile traffic growth as smartphone penetration increases exponentially
BRIC (BRAZIL, RUSSIA, INDIA, CHINA)
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SO MUCH INFORMATION!
GAH!
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