SEO for Yandex

**Doodka** · 05-20-2010 09:20 AM

I've read a few articles recently about Yandex and its growing popularity in the Russian market and in Eastern Europe. From what I understand, their algorithms are much better suited to deal with the intricacies of the Cyrillic alphabet than Google's, and because of that they have been able to maintain a very large market share in the search industry in the region.

Does anybody have any thoughts about optimizing a site specifically for Yandex?

**brownnataly21** · 05-20-2010 09:44 AM

Russian market is really hard to work with as it's still a new market and they don't have so much laws about the Internet work, but there's a chance toearn more money.

**joelchrist** · 05-21-2010 10:57 AM

This is really new info to me, Thanks for sharing.

**chirkowatson** · 05-25-2010 06:32 AM

Yes, I have had trouble getting indexed by Yandex and I was told that it was just plain difficult - especially for IDN domains. I was told that the best way to show up in Yandex is to purchase advertising. Rambler is another story....

It will take time for sites like Вероника.com, Прайс-Лист.com, and СайтЗнакомств.com to be indexed on Yandex even though they receive good type-in traffic.

**eyanharve** · 05-25-2010 10:50 AM

what is it? can anyone tell me in detail.

**jeff collision** · 05-26-2010 02:14 PM

Yandex is Russia's top search engine, and it handles the Russian language completely differently from its competitors. Yandex also analyzes the types of banners used on your Web pages to determine spam.