Middle Eastern market?

Whats a good strategy to get a hold in the middle east?

[skirril]

Hello,

I have recently 'conquered' france, and my traffic starts to show (at between 25-50 visits/day). I get referrals from the major search engines, and enough traffic for the site to be auto-financing.

The countries I want to cover (industrial supply) are like the middle east. Got someone in Turkey, another representative in Iran, and got Israel covered as well.

In what ways will i get the population of Libya, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Eggypt, in short, the arab world look at my site? - I know literacy in those countries is still an issue, as is government control of internet resources.

All of my pages are avaliable in english & french, and can be found using the relevant keywords in the major SE's.

[Marcia]

skirril, I think you will probably have to dig out which search engines are prominent in those countries, and see whether it will be necessary to have a site or section with:

1. Local primary language
2. Country-specific domain name
3. A local business presence, which with a local rep would be taken care of

[Eric_Jarvis]

we get significant traffic to our English language site from Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the Emirates...but almost all the traffic we get from the rest of the Middle East is to our Arabic site

www.ayna.com seems to be our biggest provider of traffic in Arabic

it is something I'm having to learn at the moment...my predeccessor spoke Arabic and did the initial promotion...whereas I've only got the odd word and phrase and can't read Arabic at all