Yigg and Mister Wong started in Germany

Our strict regulatory laws come in handy here, because spamming or cheating doesn't work as easily or without consequences as in other countries. Don't miss any more posts: THE newsletter in online marketing Do you like this blog post? If you want to regularly keep up with the latest trends in online marketing, then subscribe to our newsletter now. Over 18,000 subscribers trust us. Subscribe now The distance becomes shorter The USA used to be one, more likely two years ahead of us. Now I don't see it that way anymore. In many ways America is different than Germany, but trends come to us much faster than they did five years ago.


Social media is to blame for this, as it quickly brings all trends from India Car Owner Phone Number List the USA to Germany within a day at the latest. In Germany, however, people are not as keen on trends as in the USA and often wait to see how things develop on the other side of the pond. What works is then adapted. Germany: Fakes instead of real marketing? Sometimes something works in the USA, but not at all in Germany. A long time ago there were Digg.com and Reddit as “social news” portals. In Spain there is menéame , the equivalent of Digg.com. Both portals failed because they lacked real users.



Instead, there were tons of SEOs dumping links and trying to use trickery to get to number 1. Maybe it's our German way of doing things efficiently that we often take the direct and shortest route to the goal. In SEO, the shortest, easiest route is usually also the worst. While Yigg is currently unavailable, Mister Wong appears to have become a fashion site. Excursus: SEO in Spain A few more facts about Spain, where I've already been there and gotten some information. In Spain, the SEO industry is concentrated almost exclusively on the south coast; there are fewer SEOs in the center such as Madrid. The industry itself is not at all as organized as in Germany.