Evidence of type-in traffic

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by mgrohan

Yandex is indexing IDNs fine. Still only displaying punycode in the results though.

Can you give the search link for one so we can all see it?

Thanks

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[Rubber Duck]

Can't find mine amongst the dozen of others that think they own my domain name!

http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text...0%BA%D0%B0.com

[mgrohan]

Can you give the search link for one so we can all see it?

http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text...0%BD%D0%B0.com

Think the requirements to get indexed are that you are either hosted in Russia, or that your site is written totally in Russian (therefore no parked sites).

Also needs to be either manually submitted to Yandex, or have a backlink contained on a site that is already crawled by Yandex (i.e. any Russian directory)

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by mgrohan

http://www.yandex.ru/yandsearch?text...0%BD%D0%B0.com

Think the requirements to get indexed are that you are either hosted in Russia, or that your site is written totally in Russian (therefore no parked sites).

Also needs to be either manually submitted to Yandex, or have a backlink contained on a site that is already crawled by Yandex (i.e. any Russian directory)

So are you hosted in Russia?

Did you submit manually to Yandex or did you get a backlink?

Thanks!

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[mgrohan]

So are you hosted in Russia?

Did you submit manually to Yandex or did you get a backlink?

No, they're not hosted in Russia. Just got a few backlinks from Russian directories listed in Yandex (search Yandex for каталог - think that is directory in Russian). I think one directory i used was this one - [url]http://www.optime.ru/form.pl[/url]

Once you have a few backlinks, manual submit to yandex here: [url]http://webmaster.yandex.ru/[/url]

Got about 2/3 of my submitted sites indexed really quickly, with only 1-3 backlinks.

[rhys]

Originally Posted by rhys

Many of my developed japanese portfolio gets ghost levels of type-in traffic when viewed on analytics. I do have exactly one site where I am certain the traffic is really direct traffic from honest to goodness websurfers.

It is a tax domain. It is short 3 character domain and it is a .com. The .jp is held in reserve by JPRS. The people who type in are no doubt looking for the tax agency to which it refers. In the past 30 days - it has received 21 visits and 12 of those are from direct navigation. Those 12 visits came from 10 different japanese cities and 6 of them were macintosh users. Of the rest, 5 used firefox and one used IE (version not specified).

An update on this domain. Well it is clearly tax season again. Here are the stats for the same domain name for the past 30 days according to Google Analytics.

75 visits of which 43 (57%) came from direct traffic, the rest were from yahoo or google or referral. Of these 43 type-in visits 32 were from users on a Safari browser (confirmed Mac users), 7 on firefox, and 3 on IE, 1 on Mozilla. All visits were from Japan and with only a couple of exceptions all users came from different cities. What do I take away from this? Windows users will indeed start to type-in when they have the means just like my Mac users clearly already have even without advertising to encourage them to do so.

And as a matter of faith I also believe that when this behavior begins to be encouraged with Advertising all users regardless of operating system will step up the rates of their type-in.

[mkellerman]

We are still talking about low levels of traffic for Japanese domains

Do Japanese people really type in domain names on spec -- perhaps they almost invariably use search engines.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by mkellerman

We are still talking about low levels of traffic for Japanese domains. Do Japanese people really type in domain names on spec -- perhaps they almost invariably use search engines.

It has been said here many times that the Japanese are not accustomed to "type ins", but rather bookmark sites they like to return to. Be interesting to see what happens with the mass population when they can search for domains in languages they recognize and can type in easily. My guess is we will see some type in when things get on full gallop.

[rhys]

Originally Posted by mkellerman

We are still talking about low levels of traffic for Japanese domains

Do Japanese people really type in domain names on spec -- perhaps they almost invariably use search engines.

I think you should reread my post, that is not my assertion. My assertion is that they will type in someday not that they do. Clearly today they primarily use search engines because that is all they can do.

[Ryu]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

My guess is we will see some type in when things get on full gallop.

My guess is we will see some fairly noticeable amount of type-in when things go just trotting.

And just like rhys said it seems that there already are some type-ins despite very very small amount.

[Drewbert]

People don't "type in" because they tried it once when they first got on the Internet, and it didn't work.

Now (well, soon - once Microsoft are told by the Commerce Dept or FBI to force-upgrade IE6) when new users get on the Internet and try to "type in", it WILL work, and they will be an early source of traffic. Then they'll be talking to "older" Internet users and will mention that "type in" works. The older user will say "no it doesn't" and will be proved wrong.