Russian Search Engine Submissions

Foreign Search Engine Submissions

Below you will find explicit how-to instructions to submit your website to several foreign search engines.

If you have a country that you would like included in this tutorial, leave a comment requesting your country, language or search engine of preference and it will be included.

But first, you might be interested in reading my previous entry titled: Website Localization - Which Directories are You Relying on?This article goes through the reasons why you should be looking at referencing your website in local search directories. In most countries Google, Yahoo and MSN are also the leading search directories. But some countries have other local search directories you should know about if you are targeting those countries.This is where you will learn how to get your website registered with other foreign search engines. Only this aspect is covered here.

Submitting your Site to Yandex

Submitting in the Russian sites requires at least one page in Russian. I created a new blog post that is a translation of the Services Page of this site. How do you do this? Go to the Google, English to Russian Translation page, paste in your text and hit enter. Once you create a page in Russian you submit that page to the Yandex Webmaster Tool and enter the captcha code. Use the Google Russian to English translation page to read a message. You may experience several error messages, but don’t give up.

Submitting your Site to Rambler

Rambler does take a bit more effort, but I was able to do this using the online translation tools from Google in less than 10 minutes. You will be able to do it in two minutes. This is a partial snapshot of the Rambler Регистрация (registration) page.

Each line has been translated by Google, enter the appropriate data, again linking to your page in Russian. Keep in mind that no translation tool is perfect, but my translation will get you through the process. Название сайта is your site name. Choose an appropriate name and translate it into Russian. URL головной страницы is your site URL. (an example of translation tools not working, I translated this text from Russian to English and Google told me “URL pages headache”. Pretty sure that is not 100% correct.) Описание translates to description. I included 2 paragraphs, again translated by Google. Контактное лицо is your contact person, probably your name, or your site administrator. E-mail (or E-mail Контактное лицо) is the email address of the person listed as your site contact. Finally, there are 2 buttons at the bottom of the form, I chose the button on the left, and it worked. I have to assume this means submit.

Finally… After you hit that button on the left you should get to a page that shows Ваша страница принята к регистрации и будет рассмотрена в ближайшее время. which means that “your page is accepted for registration and will be reviewed shortly”. Isn’t Russian an easy language to work with?

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Here are a few more Foreign Search Engine Submissions articles:
- German Search Engine Submissions
- Chinese Search Engine Submissions