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One of our tourism clients has a multilingual website with Japanese as the most important language. When we took over the digital marketing from a Japanese company, we assumed that the language used on the website would be fine. We were very wrong about that.
The Japanese are a formal culture & not impressed with websites that are not written properly. After fixing the language, we checked out the website on an iPhone. Japanese use iPhones almost exclusively. Our client had more mobile traffic than desktop traffic, so this was an important segment.
Unfortunately, you had to scroll for an hour (I am exaggerating a little) to find the reservation button. We fixed that too.
The result? Increased online reservations.
Global Conversion Optimization is very complicated. Here are a few examples of what to watch out for:
You might think that a website that accepts major global credit cards would be enough in most cases. False. Some countries have very different payment options. One client of ours had great conversions but few sales in Brazil. We advised him to expand his payment options to include popular Brazilian methods—many Brazilians use local credit cards. The same advice is also apropos for China & many other countries.
A multilingual and multi-country company usually has the same design for all the local websites. This makes sense for branding purposes. But you have to be careful as some countries have different color and design preferences. For example, Chinese people like red but not too much of it.
It is best to pick a design that will work well across the countries you are targeting. If this is not possible, you may want to consider changing the color/design for a local site where this is
not a good fit.
The importance of mobile varies by country and by industry.
Japan is an example of a country where mobile is used more often than in other countries. And B2B companies frequently have a much higher percentage of desktop traffic than B2C companies.
We are very happy with the rankings and have started to get enquiries from customers through our distributors directly because of the site. Thanks once again for the excellent job you have done to date and we will be in contact later this year.
Sales & Marketing | Palbam Class Kibbutz Ein Herod, Israel
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