Yandex.ru, Yandex.com: Best Search Engine: Russian, English

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Yandex.com has an ~#7,000 worldwide ranking with Alexa Traffic Rank. It is ~#400 in Kazakhstan, ~#1500 in Russia, ~#1700 in Ukraine, ~#1900 in Israel, and ~#2500 in Portugal. But these figure belie the fact that the parent site (Yandex.ru) is a significant player in world search engine use (see below)

Approximately 2,800 sites link to the Yandex English version home page. Visitors mainly use this homepage (~77%), company details section (~9.5%, mainly because Yandex is now listed on NASDAQ [YNDX]), passport (~9.5%) and webmaster tools (~9.5%), when visiting the site.

Site demographics mirror that of Yandex.ru, except that there is a marked increase in male visitors, and a marked decrease in female visitors, relative to the internet norm.

The countries from which Yandex English mainly obtains its visitors are: Russia (~21.5%), China (9%), US (~8%), India (~6%), Germany (over 5.5%), Kazakhstan (~5.5%), France (almost 4%), Ukraine (~3%), UK and Spain (~2.5% each).

Yandex.ru is #23 in Alexa Traffic Rank worldwide. It is #1 in Russia, ahead of google.ru, mail.ru, and google.com. The site ranks #4 in Uzbekistan, #7 in Ukraine & Kazakhstan, #8 in Belarus, #12 in Azerbaijan, and #289 in Germany. There are almost 300k sites linking to the Russian version of Yandex (Яндекс). Between 2.8% and 2.9% of daily global internet users visit it.

Visitors mainly access the homepage (82.5%), mail (~30%, Войти в почту), images (~16%, Картинки), pass (~16%), and news (~14%, Новости). The main search queries are: 'карта' (map, 10%), 'яндекс' (Yandex, ~8%), 'Yandex' (~5%), and 'карты' (maps, ~3%).

The site demographic show a marked positive, in relation to internet averages, for males, searchers under 35, home browsing, and for those with graduate level education. The demographic shows a marked negative for females, those over 35, lower education standards, and for those browsing from school or work.

As would be expected of a Russian language site, the majority of visitors are from Russian speaking countries.

Data courtesy Alexa (2012/03/20)

The English version of Yandex Webmaster Tools can be found at:

• http://webmaster.yandex.com/

Here you are able to add site URLs to the Yandex search indexing queue, for inclusion in their databases.

Rest assured: I have checked that Wizzley has been included. You should see mention that it has indexed your pages by looking at your Wizzley analytics.

Yandex.com is the English version daughter of the best search engine in Russia: Yandex.ru. 

Yandex (Яндекс) is becoming one of the major players in the world market after conquering the Russian language speaking search engine market.