After a Russian blogger decided to take inspiration from my post about marketing with homeless people and make his own inspired counter-post, I decided to check out his
blog and the Russian MMO niche as a whole.
FIRST THOUGHTS
Wait – Russians making money online? Are they allowed to do that? Don’t they distribute it equally amongst their comrades or something? Hopefully the KGB won’t come for me due to my comments (don’t worry, the fact that I’m Russian makes my blatant stereotyping okay).
Anywho:
LOTS OF RUSSIANS WANT TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE
ProfitHunter has ~1700 RSS subscribers which puts it at about the level of a B-list American MMO blog – not bad. In fact, after following a few links, I noticed there were many blogs with thousands more subsribers and fairly high Alexa rankings (though they seem to be judged unfairly, as my rank of 128,000 was the highest out of all of the Russian blogs I found, even though I’m quite sure I get less traffic). I still couldn’t find the “John Chow” of Russian MMO blogs, though.
YANDEX IS THE RUSSIAN GOOGLE. AND SO IS GOOGLE.
The posts I noticed covered statistics in both Yandex, Russia’s major search engine, as well as Google.
WORDPRESS IS THE WINNER
Plenty of Russian blogs seemed to be using WordPress. Eat that, Blogger!
RUSSIAN MMO BLOGS AREN’T ALL THAT DIFFERENT FROM ENGLISH ONES
They have similar pillar posts: “Ten Habits Of A Successful Blogger,” “Making Money With [Insert Program Name Here],” “Five Innovative Ways To Market Your Site,” etc.
RUSSIAN COMMENTERS ARE CONSTRUCTIVE
Most people that comment on Russian posts add humour and fresh ideas. For example, my aforementioned post on using homeless people to advertise your website had the humorous suggestions of:
- Using old people that are on pensions and need money to help market websites
- Give small animals and dogs shirts with your blog URL on them – someone had already tried this, in fact.
They were far more amusing than most of the comments I see on American blogs.
FINAL REVIEW
I’m going to have to give these blogs another look: they’re quite interesting. If you want to experience a bit of culture, check out some Russian blogs! A word of warning, though – Babelfish is an awful translator. I tried it for kicks and here’s what I got:
“Cries
Also good, true, not safest method. People can think that person, who yells “you go to [Vebmun] point RU and learn as to earn the money of on-line! ”, simply it descended from the mind“
By Shaun on May 30, 2008 | Reply
Yandex? Is that like spandex?
By Germz on May 30, 2008 | Reply
Hmm… maybe I should look for Colombian blogs (that’s if anyone knows what a blog is in south america).
By Profit Hunter on May 31, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the post, Max!
Perhaps, the thing is we, here in Russia, Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union, people are more curious about making money online and more of them subscribe to RSS-feeds (if compared to the US people).
BTW, in terms of Internet marketing and blogging we lag behind you, the US bloggers and marketers, but in terms of SEO (white, grey and black) our webmasters are up to the mastard
By Wii Fit Accessories on Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
I have been getting tons of visitors from Russian MMO and SEO websites…. they have been promoting my other blogs.
By jarofed on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply
Thank`s for the interesting post, Max. It`s a pleasure to read about russian blogosphere in the english blog.
By the way I heard that former Soviet Union bloggers are very active (especially ukrainians) in this new Web 2.0 thing. I`m also have a blog in Ukrainian. So at least some of former SU bloggers read your blog too.
By Max Miroff on Jun 4, 2008 | Reply
I see the two Russian’s that have posted here are emphasizing the Soviet Union part. I know it dissolved, so don’t think I’m some kind of stupid American
It’s an old Russian joke.
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