How to Search Engine Optimize (SEO)? And is it different for each country?

[Jake]

One observation, Google disregards meta keywords, after they were abused too much for SEO purposes. I have to image Japanese language pages would be a big ranking factor.


This Whiteboard Friday video and the comments may be useful
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/international...ard-friday

http://www.seomoz.org/q/seo-for-japan

One other comment on SEO Moz
Your content for each region should have a landing page for that region. mysite.com/jp would be your landing page for Japan, etc. Your landing pages would be treated as your home page for Japanese speakers. You should have links from Japanese companies to the /jp page as if it was your site's home page.