Why there are less visitors from countries like Russia and China?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Personaltrainer, Nov 4, 2008.

  1. #1
    Those countries are big and china is the most populated country. Still I hardly find any visitors on my sites from these countries. How do we target these country visitors.
     
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  2. norfstar

    norfstar Peon

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    Is your site in English? Chinese and Russian people are more likely going to be searching for sites in their local language.
     
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  3. Personaltrainer

    Personaltrainer Peon

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    My sites are in English. Won't they use Google.com or do these countries have their own search engines which are far more popular than Google?
     
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  4. dzi

    dzi Well-Known Member

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    yes, russia has Yandex ;)

    anyways google has regional settings there and it shows different results

    so your well-optimized site for english keywords might be not so well optimized there
     
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  5. NickF

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    I wish I had fewer Russian visitors.

    Thanks, Asprox Botnet!
     
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    Beyond Yandex Russia also uses Rambler a lot.
    Google is not as big there.
     
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    what google is not big there?
    i thought its the defacto.
    @NickF why you need russian visitors, anything special there?
     
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  8. maxerg

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    It's about their alphabets, probably most of them cannot read English at all.
     
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  9. Shellerz

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    I think there are governmental controls in China limiting what sites people may access too
     
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    The lack of visitors is that you don't get indexed by that version of the SEs. Also, your site does not support "language translation" that would help those that do hit you site, read it.
     
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    Thats another reason why people from China, and other "strict" countries don't allow traffic to certain sites, hence the use of many proxies, also maybe their computers don't support the Charset in which your site is displayed in.
     
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    They use their countries version of google or some other search engine.
     
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    Shellerz Active Member

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    I seem to see a lot of Russian sites with English/American links on though, hmmm...
     
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    One of the alerts I received indicated that my site was visited by someone from Russia and the page had been translated into Russian. I don't provide either translated pages or a translator on my site, so they must have used one of their own.
     
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    What kind of an alert is that?

    WARNING: Your site has just been visited by Russians!
     
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  16. dzi

    dzi Well-Known Member

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    :D zee rashans!!!
     
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  17. discuss4u

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    People in China use baidu.com

    And there is a "great firewall" to filter some websites. They will filter the ip of the site and also the domain name.
     
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  18. dzi

    dzi Well-Known Member

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    Rambler's tendency is to decrease in popularity as a search engine, it's more a media portal/holding - Yandex is the god :)
     
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  19. Personaltrainer

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    How can I submit my sites in Yandex? I don't find them there. Anybody who knows the submit link please share it. Thanks
     
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    dzi Well-Known Member

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    here it is - enter url and capcha http://webmaster.yandex.ru/
     
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