Search engine markets shares in Asia

Recent global market shares of search engines (I/2008, netapplications.com):

Broken down into Asian countries, Google’s markets share looks like this:

I did some research and compared the positions of the search engines in the following Asian markets. If available I added the rough percentages in market share, sometimes the available numbers vary really heavily. Total percentage per […]

Monetize your Chinese Website with these contextual partner programs

You got a website in Chinese language and want to monetize it? Here are some content ads provider and contextual partner programs in China which can be used to monetize a Chinese website:

Google Adsense China: Type: partner program for text, banner or video ads. Simplified and traditional Chinese available, works the same as in any […]

PPC / SEM China: Search engine marketing and China keyword advertising, PPC China

A keyword advertising (also called SEM, search engine marketing, PPC, pay-per-click or paid search) campaign is the quick way to get on page one in the Chinese search engines. All major search engines in China offer the advertising channel PPC / SEM – although there are some differences between Baidu, Google and Yahoo. The idea […]

Chinese search engines: Comparing Baidu and Google

As in many other countries as well there are a lot of search engines in China but only a few have a relevant market share. These are especially Google and Baidu, and Yahoo to a minor part. Unlike to most other countries in the world, Google is not the market leader in China, in fact […]

Long tail SEO / SEM

In his book „The long tail” Chris Anderson talks about the growing importance of niches and its influence to the mass market. Take Rhapsody, an online music store, as an example. It has 1.5 million albums available for download, whereas a classic offline music store offers approximately 5.000 albums. What both online and offline sales […]