Russian Web 2.0 Explodes with Content - 10 Million Blogs by 2008
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Andrey_Gidaspov]Andrey Gidaspov
Russian Web 2.0 Pravda of the RUNET
I was a lucky kid. Since I was seven, I waited with great anticipation for lunch time, when my mother, who worked at a large publishing house, would bring a freshly printed pack of Soviet newspapers, like Izvestiya, Pravda, Trud, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Krasnaya Zvezda, Sovetsky Sport, all in all, up to 10+ newspapers. There was nothing more pleasant than to chomp on a juicy apple and read all the latest news in one pack! I even used to fight with my older brother over who will get
...in the organic rankings until you are listed on the top ten, or front page. This is a much easier task with the long tail keywords, especially when you have the paid search marketing data to guide you in which ...
Despite the abundance of styles, from the stiff and official Pravda to the more relaxed and youthful Komsomolskaya Pravda , the opinions expressed were trimmed to the rules of the reigning Soviet propaganda machine. Only after the genie of glasnost came out of Gorbachev s bottle, I saw some unusually critical articles in the Soviet press. Even then, people still could not really speak up or relate their opinions to particular events, except discussing it with friends or relatives in their tiny kitchens, where people could discuss anything and everything at small kitchen tables with the help of vodka and pickles
Alas, in the early
...around out there, you will end up spending all of your money with zero rewards in your pocket for your time or effort. THE SECOND LESSON TO BE LEARNED Find a niche product to sell or promote. And then make ...
Today Russian blogging services are on their way up. The latest research by Yandex, the Russian search engine No. 1, showed that the two most popular services in the Russian Internet (RUNET) are LiveJournal s Russian language community (RULJ) and
...market. Google is not necessarily the dominant player in all countries. In China, for example, at the time of writing, you won't find Google in the top ten sites. An engine called Baidu is by far the most used site. ...
However, the gap is still wide: LI has 170,000 daily visitors, while there are 600,000 visitors at RULJ. LI s General Director German Klimenko said to CNews that the number of active blogs at LI will exceed LJ by the end of 2007. Yandex research indicates that the overall growth of the Russian blogging sphere is 74% (41% worldwide), however the total number of Russian blogs account for only 3% of worldwide blogs. Analysts believe that by
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Let s make a quick comparison between LI and RULJ. Once you check or register to both, one thing becomes clear immediately: RULJ is definitely more mature and garners an older audience. LI, boasting a kaleidoscope of services, is crafted for teenagers and young adults. Naturally, LI s audience is growing faster than that of RULJ. After all, kids are craving for company and socializing. The big difference is in the quality of content and blogs, where at LI bored teenagers spill out their fresh half-thoughts and desires, while the good ol RULJ crowd is much more
...not least that is targeted traffic. Here targeted traffic or unique visitors means those valuable user, who directly affect the sales. Other steps of search engine marketing is always carried after initial search engine marketing. Search engine marketing strategy, pay ...
Depressed Russians and Football Widows
Well, yes, when you are entering the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport, the first Russians who you see are not smiling and look pretty gloomy. But actually associating Russians with depression that sounds funny to me. Little did I know that a new term a Russian means just that! Here is what one RULJ user, http://mi3ch.livejournal.com/1131649.html, offered to discuss to the Russian blogging community. Under the topic presenteeism this user shared newly
...significance. PPC is one of the ways in which an on line marketing campaign can be organized. In the realms of PPC search marketing, advertisers bid on certain keywords that they believe that potential customers would click on to, when ...
mac nazi - people crazy about Apple Macintosh products
football widow - a woman who believes her husband is dead during football matches
a russian - a person who is constantly in depression and sees the world in black
And there is much more of this new language in there.
Now, how about checking the most popular blogs in Russia? Yandex regularly publishes its own rating of RUNET s blogs at: Blogs.yandex.ru/top. As of July 3, 2007, there were 2,189,160 blogs rated on the Yandex system.
For example, the top-4 blogs in
...to 20 pages are being added each day. Nomad Rick s Ramblings is the blog for the site and the feed is included on four My Yahoo pages for various email accounts. Yahoo has indexed 95 pages and is about ...
1. www.Ajdnevnik.ru Alexander Jdanov and pictures of the Star Factory popular music show
2. drugoi.livejournal.ru an illustrated magazine about everything in the world
3. http://lleo.aha.ru/dnevnik/whatis — Blog of Leonid Kaganov, Russian writer
4. aqua_snezhok.livejournal.com mainly various photos of glamour, animals, people and fashion
Blogger Services Rating by Yandex, July 3, 2007
LiveInternet 51,823 records on July 3
LiveJournal 48,439
Diary.ru 18,609
Blogs.Mail.Ru 12,289
Love ♥ Planet 7,935
Planeta.Rambler.ru 2,875
Beon.ru 2,398
Jamango 2,129
Search in blogs by Yandex, July
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Steve Bloom
Transformers the game
torent
Timothy and Sobchak
Harry Potter
On July 3, 2007, popular categories included (most popular are in caps letters): Anime, CRAP, spring, VIDEO, questions, children, DIARY, friends, Eurovision, LJ, life, games, interesting, Internet, history, pictures, cinema, books, culture, private, lytdybr or ksnls,h, love, people, my thoughts, my life, MUSIC, thoughts, thoughts aloud, mood, news about life, about me, rest, positive, POLITICS, pranks, nature, psychology, travel, job, pondering, various, dreams, events, sport, links, poems, tv, creativity, tests, films, PHOTO, football, hockey, school, humor, me, me and my friends.
Copycats Lure Millions of Users
However large RULJ
...manner. It costs you nothing up front, all you need to do is recruit affiliates by submitting the program to directories or websites that list affiliate programs. Places like forums, message boards or other places that are visited by webmasters ...
The latest hit
...objectives and relative timetable. Often, both the long and short term maintenance contracts that many firms insist on including with each job are unnecessary. As an example...If you have a new site optimized, especially right after an update, you may ...
Created in 2006, Habrahabr.ru, an analog of Dig.com, became successful almost immediately. Habrahabr s audience include people interested in the Web development and Internet economy, web-designers,
...407 Number of blogs tagged with 'super bowl proposal': according to technorati 16 Number of blogs with the headline 'super bowl proposal': 37 The last two numbers may not seem that impressive, but considering the readership of each blog and ...
Apart from these sites that help to find friends and provide socializing platform, there are a few interesting projects covering various social needs.
For example, according to Habrahabr, recently E-Generator.ru supported by FINAM holding, launched DrugMe.ru (note that in Russian drug literally means a friend ), a social site for people with various illnesses interested in socializing with each other, finding better drugs and doctors, recommending good clinics, etc. Among the services which
...your site. Repeat business is always easier to get than new business. Send monthly e-mail newsletters to customers who have already purchased from you. Promote new products and specials. These are just a few ideas, and the basic idea is ...
Education is another sphere that is destined to be Web-two-oed. As an example, in 2006 Intel and TransTelecom jointly launched a Web 2.0 project for Russian teachers. The Letopisi.ru project aimed at educating teachers in using Web 2.0 principles to create a platform for collective educational projects.
...themselves. By using the noarchive tag, you are telling search engine spiders, in effect, "This page is subject to frequent changes, and I don't want my visitors to have access to some of this content at a later time." Conclusion ...
Show Me the Money: Cherchez La Femme a la Russ
So, where is the money? Mamba.ru President, Nikita Sherman, said that some 15 million people use internet dating sites. And this market is growing 70% to 100% annually. Thus, in 2006 web-dating site owners harvested USD 34 million of profits. According to iKS-Consulting, 52% of these audience are men with higher education and business owners. Yes, for a chance to find your Cinderella/Jolie or a Super/Spiderman, Russian men and women don t mind spending their hard earned rubles.
Yet Web 2.0 site owners also search for the green light in
...pay to have your website submitted. But why pay? If you have good content on your website or blog it will eventually get listed. The third best search engine is MSN or Live.com and I get some traffic from them. ...
...s a great idea to stop writing seo articles for a while and focus on something else. Did you know that forum participation and blogging can be really effective at helping you with your PR? Diversify your seo strategy a ...
One way or another, Russian Web 2.0 is evolving into a very creative and living organism that brings people together and offers great business opportunities to bright entrepreneurs and programmers. So, are you feeling Russian now?
Dr. Andrey Gidaspov has over ten years of experience in business consulting in the IT and telecom (ICT) fields in Russia, CIS and Asia. Andrey has sealed deals for hundreds of American companies with Russian and CIS partners, ranging from start-up businesses to large multi-national corporations throughout Eurasia. His past clients include well-known technology leaders such as Motorola, Harris, Tekelec, Oracle, Corning, Tellabs, Qualcomm, Net2Phone, Nortel, Andrew and many
...online businesses is suffering from this nightmare. Installation of blogs on your website may prove wonder. Search engine will index blogs faster than any other pages on your website. Another method to get picked up by the search engine is ...
In September 2004 Andrey opened his own consulting business, Gidabyte ( http://www.gidabyte.com ), based in Hong Kong, China. The company provides a wide range of business consulting in the ICT sector for international companies in Eurasia and Asia Pacific. GidaByte’s bi-monthly newsletter GidaScope has become an instant success ( http://www.gidabyte.com/newsletters ) among various businesses interested in doing business in Russia. Andrey recently authored his first book - Riding the Russian Technology Boom - which will soon be available on Amazon. See more info about the book at: http://www.russia.futuretext.com