Yandex - Russian Search Engine

Thanks for letting me know about new information via this thread. Really helpful one.

It is a very nice post.Yandex is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia.The home page is the highest traffic page been rated as the most popular web site in Russia.

its a Russian search engine and i have seen its bot visit my site a couple of times. though i haven't seen any of my pages indexed by their search engine.

Originally Posted by Rayz.Mario

its a Russian search engine and i have seen its bot visit my site a couple of times. though i haven't seen any of my pages indexed by their search engine.

Means this site will not helpful for English website ? May be this search engines will prefer russian site first.

Thanks

I sometimes use Yandex

Originally Posted by ColtМ1911

I sometimes use Yandex

For what ?

I use google for about all types of search. Surprised if you are using yandex for few keywords or requirement. Please share some thing here if you are really using yandex sometimes.

Thanks

Russia is large territory but internet market is not as much big as in U.S or Europe or Indian sub content. So it is very difficult.

Yandex (Russian: Я́ндекс) is a Russian IT company which operates the largest search engine in Russia (with 64% market share, ranked eighth-largest in the world) and develops a number of Internet-based services and products. The Yandex.ru home page is the highest traffic page been rated as the most popular web site in Russia.

Yandex was launched in 1997. Its name can be explained as "Yet Another iNDEXer" (yandex) or "Языково́й (language) Index". The Russian word "Я" ("Ya") corresponds to English personal pronoun "I", making "Яndex" a bilingual pun on "index"; another pun is based on yin and yang contrast (Russian: инь - индекс, ян - яндекс).

Does anybody have any thoughts about optimizing a site specifically for Yandex?<-- I have
Cos I work with yandex mostly.

Russia is large territory but internet market is not as much big as in U.S or Europe or Indian sub content. So it is very difficult. <-- Internet marketing is growing up in Russia.
SEO become very popular service.
I think about 80% of Russian users use Yandex only.
But - Yandex is a SE for Russian-speaking webpage, so ..
Any questions - ask me!