All search engines, including Yandex, tell you to create great content. They also tell you that the content should be unique. But what if your content gets re-posted somewhere, and what if that copy-paster ranks higher than you? This situation, I am sure, is familiar to most of us.

Search engines have been pretty good at determining the primary source of content, but sometimes they do get it wrong, and Yandex does more often than Google.

In 2011 Google came up with a way for authors to protect their rights in the SERPs with rel=”author” tag. It has proven to be a very good way to show Google the true ownership of the content as well as build up authority of you as a writer. Unfortunately, Yandex does not support rel=”author” tag. But there is an alternative.

Original Texts tool in Yandex Webmaster

Yandex gives a possibility to claim your content authorship by submitting the texts through a form in Yandex Webmaster tools before publishing them on the site.

The form is placed in Site content section in Webmaster Tools. The section is not translated into English for some reason, but the Original Texts tool can still be accessed from the first item in the list or by following this link http://webmaster.yandex.ru/site/ext_plugins.xml?wizard=api.originals.

In order for the tool to work for you, you need to make sure:

- Your site has a TIC of 10 or higher.

- You content is not shorter than 2000 characters and not longer than 32ooo characters.

- Your content is unique and cannot be found anywhere on the Internet.

- You submit plain text without HTML code.

Although Original Texts tool does not give a 100% guarantee that copied text will not over-rank your original one, in most case it will help Yandex to identify you as an author of the content.

Anna

Anna is a blogger and online marketing professional specializing in SEO and SEM for Russian search engines. To see more of Anna's posts, follow her on Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn.

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This is the first post in the new Q&A section, and it is to cover a question I recently received about Yandex content network targeting.

Question

How to select TOPICS in Yandex Display Network targeting (just like AdWords)?

Answer

First of all, there is a difference between Yandex content network and display advertising on Yandex.

Buying display advertising on Yandex

Yandex does offer display advertising, but it is by no means the same as advertising on GDN. Yandex’s offering is more of an old-school display type with CPM pricing, however recently they introduced some interesting targeting options:

1. Thematic groups: similar to Topic & Interest targeting. The topics are defined based on users’ search history.

2. Demographics: targeting of certain age and gender groups; can be combined with geotargeting.

3. Mobile versions of various parts of Yandex portal (PDA)

4. Search retargeting

Display ads can be purchased on Yandex properties and / or Yandex advertising network. For example, a placement can look like this:

There is no self-serving platfotm for Yandex display advertising. If you are interested in this product, you will have to get in touch with Yandex representatives.

How to advertise on Yandex content network

Yandex content network (also Yandex Ad Network or YAN) is a network of websites available for targeting via Yandex.Direct. The only format supported there is text ads, and there is no possibility to use any kind of image ads.

Just like with AdSense, publishers are able to style the ads according to their website design. For example, text ads on Yandex content network can look like this:

The only way of targeting on Yandex content network is keywords. Nothing similar to Google’s topics or interest targeting is available at the moment. I also discovered from my own experience that not any keywords are eligible for targeting. They keywords in the campaign have to match the content of the ad and landing page copy.

For example, let’s say we are selling fashionable high heeled shoes. When working with Google display network, we are able to target pages that talk about fashion, or clubbing, or make up tips, in other words pages that our target audience might find interesting. These sites can probably bring leads, because we serve the content to the same crowd: interested in fashion young ladies. With Yandex, however, we will only be able to target pages (keywords) that talk about shoes. Entering make up related keywords will get our ads rejected.

Hope this answers the question. Please ask more!

Anna

Anna is a blogger and online marketing professional specializing in SEO and SEM for Russian search engines. To see more of Anna's posts, follow her on Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn.

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Dear friends,

Some of you might have noticed that I was running a Qualaroo (former KissInsights) poll for a few months. I got a lot of questions, and I will start answering the most common ones in the newly created Q&A section.

I encourage you to send me more questions, and I will do my best to answer them.

Thank you for your contribution!

Sincerely,
Anna

Anna

Anna is a blogger and online marketing professional specializing in SEO and SEM for Russian search engines. To see more of Anna's posts, follow her on Twitter, Google+ or LinkedIn.

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