How To Get Traffic From Non-English Domains
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Some of you may have read my How To Increase Traffic To Your Site Or Blog written earlier. This article may be considered as an addendum to that.
I have been getting considerable traffic from non-English domains and sites, mainly from non-English Google searches from all over the world and foreign language bookmarking sites. I have successfully generated traffic from Italian, Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Portugese, and many other foreign language domains. This is what prompted me to suggest the installation of a 'Translate This Page' button or widget here at HubPages.
Earlier last month Google indexed one of my hubs and then later decided to de-index it. For more than two weeks there was no traffic from google for this page after getting solid hits from the search engine soon after publishing it. Since then they have re-indexed that hub and traffic from google has picked up again. I believe one of the reasons that may have acted in my favor is the traffic and backlinks I got from non-English sites during that lull period.
According to the World Internet Statistics, only around 30% internet users are Engish. So, there are nearly 70% of the traffic to aim for!. Please refer to the screenshot below. These stats are last updated on June 30, 2008.
World Internet Statistics
How To Get Traffic From Non-English Sites
One of the reason I wanted the 'translate this page' button is that, not all foreign language visitors will be able to comprehend what is on a stricly English site and they may never return again. Or they will have to use their own tool to translate the pages. Although there are a lot of free online translation tools available I rely on Google Translate.
As Mark Indicated, there is also a lighter side of online automatic translations with which you can entertain yourself at Lost In Translation.
Ok. Here is how I do it.
With Google Translate you can translate most major languages somewhat effectively. Using this tool I translate the title and text for the article into the language I want. I copy these and head over to the foreign language bookmarking sites of my choice. Once again I use the Google Translate tool to convert their pages to english. Now you can easily use that site just like any other English bookmarking sites and hope to get some traffic from them. Anyway you are getting a free backlink from a foreign language site! Don't forget that most of these foreign language sites have high PR as well.
For your reference below is the biggest list of working non-English bookmarking sites that you can use to get some high traffic. I am sure in the coming years there will be more and more language specific sevices on the net, and I will have keep on updating this list. But always remember not to break the golden rule of social bookmarking sites. DONT SPAM!
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The Biggest List Of Non-English Bookmarking Sites
365Key - Chinese
@nifty - Japanese
alltagz - German
Anotalo - Spanish
- Baai! - Russian
baqoo - Japanese
Batumark - Japanese
BLINK - Japanese
BlogPeople Tags - Japanese
- Bluegger - French
- BobrDobr - Russian
bokee - Chinese
Bookmarks - French
bookmarkr - Korean
- Choix - Japanese
CoRich - Japanese
- Colivia - German
- Chuza - Spanish
- CSSLook - Korean
darabet - Arabic
- DigBuzz - Chinese
DIGG - Latvian
- DoMelhor - Portugese
Eezyy News - Chinese
eKudos - Dutch
Fique Rico Online - Portugese
Flash-Clip - Japanese
Flog - Japanese
- Fuzz - French
- Gwar - Polish
- Hadash Hot - Hebrew
HATENA - Japanese
HEMiDEMi - Chinese
icio de - German
INEFFABILE - Italian
- InterNetMedia - Hungarian
JoltMark - Japanese
Karigane - Japanese
- Kilasan - Indonesian
linkBlog - Portugese
Linkertop - French
Linkk - Portugese
- Linkologia - Polish
- Linkter - Portugese
ListFreak - Japanese
livedoor LISLOG - Japanese
mar.gar - Korean
- mark.hu - Hungarian
meneame - Spanish
Mister Wong - Spanish
Mister Wong - Russian
Mister Wong - French
Mister Wong - German
Mister Wong - Chinese
- MSN Reporter - French
- MSN Reporter - Norwegian
- MSN Reporter - Dutch
News 2.0 - Korean
- Noticias.Kesar - Spanish
NTPY - Turkish
OKNOtizie - Italian
oneview - German
Onzig - Romanian
Overmundo - Portugese
Ouvi dizer - Portugese
phigita - Greek
Pingking - Japanese
- Pioche - French
POOKMARK Airlines - Japanese
- Populicias - Spanish
Pusha - Swedish
- Rec6 - Portugese
ROOTACE - Japanese
saites - Latvian
Scoopeo - French
Segnalo - Italian
SEOigg - German
- Shaveh - Hebrew
SocialDust - Italian
synClick - Japanese
tag.schaufler - German
TagMos - Dutch
TapeMoi - French
- TechNotizie - Italian
- Tipt - Dutch
toodoo - Russian
- Wapher - Arabic
Watvindenwijover - Dutch
Webnews – German
Wikio - German
Wikio - French
- WyKop - Polish
- Yigg - German
Yo Grito - Spanish
- Yuying - Japanese
- Zabaldu - Basque
NOTE: Many of my articles have been copied in its entirety by bloggers and others, This is to let you know that what you are doing is plagiarism. You are most welcome to post excerpts from this article on your blogs or sites with proper link backs and never ever copy this content in its entirety.
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Comments
I must be having brain freeze - but how did you get this sentence to link to your hub?
If you liked this post please digg it, Stumble it, Mixx it or bookmark it using your favorite services.
Lol! - I cannot for the life of me think of it and I really want to know - Major brain freeze!
Thank you being commenting, Melanie.
The linking is quite easy to do. Just click on the green button, then right click on your favorite button and select the 'copy link location'. You are done!
Best Regards
I don't understand quite what you do. You translate the title and body and you copy it. (presumably to a file in a local text editor or something.) So far so good. Then you go to these non english sites. And you book mark your translation in these non english sites. I assume they want you to bookmark the article in their language that is published somewhere on the web. What you failed to tell us is where do you publish the translation or is it only the dynamic links to them that you copy?
As for how she got the link to stumble, privateeye2500 she probably just created / copied the linkes from the expander and used the link tool to link them to those phrases. You could substitute your own hub addresses and it would work just fine.
OK, now that i tried it I see what you do. You bookmark a URL such as
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F
Nice.
Not really. Using that redirect link may get you banned from those sites. It is always best to submit the actual url.
Woo...This is Awsome. I am going to give it a try.
Really good post! I am never disappointed when I read your hubs Sun! Thanks for another excellent article.
Awesome information.Thanks
Now THIS is an interesting and informative Hub that I am going to read several times. Thanks!!
Very Informative stuff. I will definitly use this trick to translate some relevant articles. You did a great job.
dear sunseven,
thanks for your genuine work and keeping the readers updated
Hi Sun,
What an ingeneous idea.
It will take me a while to figure it out but well worth the effort.
This article is especially interesting to me as I am about to start teaching English to foreigners on line.
All your articles are really well thought out and researched.
Well done and keep up the good work.
Thank you for sharing and take care of yourself Diana.
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Very interesting, I'm going to add this one to my favorites.
WOW - It will take me sometime to get what you are saying but it is totally awesome. You are fantastic. I have added this hub to my favourites... ;)
A very good post, Sun. But, majority of the translation results using widgets doesn't give 100% correct translation unless the article is manually translated by human who know the language. I know how to read chinese and i did try to translate some english articles into chinese using widget. The tranlation results was very poor.
Sometimes, it is much better to ask other hubbers or friends who know the second lauguage to do the translation for you. I think it is much better.
very interesting, Sunseven--thanks for sharing this. I'mm off to digg and stunble you to spread the word.
Thanks SunSeven! Absolutely wondeful Hub!
I'm actually quite amazed to find out that chinese account for 20% of the internet users. I thought of adding a translation widget to my blog, but was caught up in writing a post or modifying something and never really got around to it.
However, with this new information that I've learned off of your article, it sort of seems wasteful to traffic, and visitors not to.
Great job SunSeven. I really appriciate you taking the time to send me this information.
Have a great day.
Brad @ Bradblogging.com
Mind blowing! Wish i could be as hardworking as you Seven. I have been busy with some home shifting and all, but the day i get serious about about my hubs, im surely going to come back to read this and try it out.
This is an excellent Hub. Thank you for sharing what you have learned about the www... In reference to your being plagiarized - Have you checked out the website:
An excellent online tool to check for plagiarism... and it is free.
Write On!
You always rock. That's why I am a fan of you.
As Patti said, have bookmarked and will read many many times
Thank you for your great effort
The information in the chinese readerhip is awesome. I was kind of shock to see the figure. Lol.
There is a method to create translated pages directly on the server without the use of Goolge Translate?
Thanks for this wonderful post. I came here from your comment on one of my blog posts yesterday.
Really wonderful.
Good stuff, Thanks for shining a new light for me here.
Grog
Great work, this is definitely something worth looking into. I've used babblefish before for translations on ebay messages to potential buyers, with mixed results. It obviously doesn't get everything, and the context might be a little wacky, but it gets the general point across.
That's a great list. Thanks for sharing.
Nice hub - I have linked one of mine on a similar topic to it or you
Nice hub - I have one on a relevant topic so I have linked yours from mine for you
This is valuable information. Thank you.
You have written some great hubs. I also like the 101 things to do for hubbers and bloggers.
Very good post!
Congratulation
Well done
That's a great list, thanks!
Is it spam if I ask you if you are interested in using your knowledge of foreign language bookmarking site use to help set up a non-English affiliate program where I am the "merchant"?If even asking you about using your speciality for business purposes is spam, then please ignore this post.If it is not, and you give me permission, I will give you an outline by email, or whatever... I just joined and really don't know what is included in the prohibition against "... promoting your hubs or other sites...", either.
great idea...thanks
privateye2500 says:
11 months ago
THIS -- IS -- totally Awesome!
Thanks and kudos for a job well done! :}