Search Engine Submission to Korea/Japan

international search engine submission techniques

[Richland2020]

I have a potential client that wants me to take over submission to Korean and Japanese search engines. They will provide us with a list of translated terms.

Is there any software that might facilitate this?
What are any the language/multibyte considerations?
Any info on how to get international engines to index my clients site?

[intl seo guru]

This is a lot to bite off. Do you -- or do you have staff who -- speak/read/write the target languages? If not, you'll need to partner with someone who does Japanese and Korean SEO. If you do have SEO experience and language capabilities, I'm happy to offer some tips. Looking forward to your reply.

[globalseo]

If they have the site/pages in Korean and Japanese and they are properly linked from their home page or a site map the crawlers will find them.

You will need someone with those language abilities to do the submissions to the major directories.

I would not recommend using any automated software programs to submit to directories or enignes. If you use a firm to do ask them for a copy of the submission and the "thank you" page and e-mail if they get one.

[bill]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld Richland2020 & intl seo guru

You might want to look around at some of the older threads we have in this forum. A lot of your questions have probably already been answered. ;)

[a2ztranslate]

i deal with a lot of clients that want asian language versions of their sites. for most korean engines, the number of pages in the site in korean vs english can be a factor. many of the mainstream korean engines won't index sites that only have one screen in korean and then a whole lot of english. japanese engines aren't so strict.

that said, if the whole site isn't in the target language, then there's not really a lot of point in doing the exercise anyway. we have done landing page style sites in korean and japanese (against my better judgement), but the conversion rate is so low. clients need to think a bit about how to engender trust in the site visitor, and part of that means providing a lot if not all relevant content in the local language.

you may also want to visit a few competitor sites in those local languages. particularly in japan, japanese sites tend to be very very "busy", lots of things going on in the content of the page. here in new zealand a lot of clients go for a very "minimalist" web design, but i don't think that is so appropriate in some other markets.

[asinah]

My experience with Japanese and Asian based search engines is that you need more Asianh content as Japanese.

We started last year with around 24,000 pages in japanese and since last month they are finally in the engines. (Currently 35% of our total traffic comes out of Asia)

Hire someone to do it for you. Landing pages alone is not enough.

[kazonik]

For Japan:
In most cases, a link on a moderately important page that is spidered often, is enough to draw the spiders to your site.

Be sure that the links on your top page are easy to follow, even consider adding a link to a sitemap on your top page.

We have not actively submitted urls for the google based engines for quite a while now and had good success.

MSN can benefit from submission although we havent seen that it represents a large percentage of our traffic.

Peace,
Kaz