International SEO - What is the path?

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Hello Guys!

I'm a newbie, I hope that my questions are not silly and not against the forum rules.

First of all, I'm not a SEO Professional. I'm more like a curious who have been studying and now starting SEO as an hobbie.

I'm Portuguese and that makes a big difference as Portuguese market is not very competitive.

Let's go straight to the point...

One friend had a site made in flash for a laundry shop. Me being aware of all the issues SEO vs Flash, offered myself to build a website with wordpress. As he didn't have control over the domain and was a .net domain, we've decided to buy a .com domain. The old domain could not be redirected with 301.

I've tried to build a decent website (I'm not a webdesigner either) and tried to apply my little SEO On-Site Knowledge.

I think in general this part is pretty decent. It was the easy part I believe.

Now it comes the difficult part...Content...

I've no idea how to build good content as we are talking about a laundry shop and there is not much interesting about this business.
Based on this and the fact that we are not talking about English language but Portuguese language, is quite difficult to find out good ways to do link building
and to use social networks.

The competition in Portugal is lousy but the fact that is a new domain (3 month old) plus I can't find ways to promote it in a clean way the site, leaves me a bit stuck.

I've been trying to be active on Facebook, Google + (just created a page), Twitter and register the site wherever I can, but still I think is not enough.

Another doubt is about keywords... what are the best strategies for International keyword researching? Adwords is the only answer?

The website name is Lavilimpa and the main keywords are "lavandaria" and "engomadoria" (in Portugal there is no need for long tailed keywords, stil I tried to add also the city "Lisboa" to the content).

So far the site is on page 5 and 6 for these keywords and I look ahead and all I can see is crappy sites.

What is the path to follow?

Tks in advance for all help.

Cheers

José
#building #international #link #path #seo
  • Profile picture of the author GodMode52
    Build 5-10-20 buffer sites around your main site (you can use free domains or web.20 blogs) , add some content on each buffer site with your language, slap those buffer sites with any language backlinks you can find around. Safe - efficent - working - .
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  • Profile picture of the author movemaker
    As far as the keyword research side of things I would use the option to change your location.

    When you use the Google Keyword take a look at the part where you see the option to change your location. This should give you more accurate data on your keywords for you region.

    If the competition is low a high quality backlink campaign should do you just fine. If you have any questions regarding backlinking strategies contact me.

    I know a guy that can help you out and help you get some massive results.

    No I'm not selling you anything. I just wana help you out and lead you to the right resources.
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