Yandex is very different from Google, when it comes to stable rankings and updates of search results. It is very important to keep in mind that while Google SERPs are never 100% stable, in Yandex not many changes happen on a daily basis.
This used to be the case with Google before as well, but it [...]
Interesting interview. Found on the net a couple of days ago. The CEO of Yandex is talking (in English!) abough Yandex and his visions.
My favorite quotes:
We planned IPO a year ago. Now we don’t need IPO. We have enough money.
There is much more money available in Russia than brains
90% of searches are in Russian
Pople use [...]
Amazingly fast, the new search algorithm Snezhinsk went live on Yandex. It was announced today at 19.55 Moscow time on Yandex Webmaster blog (webmaster.ya.ru). Yandex, unlike Google, which promised to wait with Caffeine until after the Christmas break, was not afraid to give a hard time to webmasters and businesses right before winter holidays.
I noticed [...]
Backlinks of a typical Russian website is a total nightmare. You will probably find lots of spammy directories and social bookmarks. This is how the SEOs in Russia usually begin their SEO efforts to get sites quickly indexed and receive initial PR and Quotation Index.
There are dozens of services and scripts offering to register your [...]
In April Yandex launched a new algorithm known as Arzamas these days (Arzamas is a name of a Russian city btw). Apart from many new factors affecting rankings, such as for example duplicate content filter that removed over one million of pages from the index in one night, in the new algorithm was implemented a [...]
This is the first post of the series “10+ things to know before you start”. I decided to create this category because although Yandex works in a similar way to Google, there are several Yandex-specific factors, which you must consider when doing your Yandex SEO.
Quotation index is one of them.
Quotation index is a grade of [...]
Being “forced” to work with a number of Russian clients due to my bilingual nature, I have been learning about Russian search during the last two years. I have come to realize that being as wild and confusing as it is, Russian SEO is incredibly fun.
First of all, it is all about Yandex. Yes, Yandex [...]