1. Tony White

    Online Publisher - Estates Gazette Group at Reed Business Information

    11 April 2008 08:28am

    Tony White

    Anyone an expert on SEO in Japan ? Whats different form the UK/US markets. I know Yahoo is the dominant search engine but thats about it.

    What things would I need to be aware of when setting out to optimise a site in japan ?

    Better still - can anyone recommend and SEO agency that specialises in the Japanese marketplace

  2. Denis Kondopoulos

    Technical Project Manager (MBA, MBCS, CITP, CEng) at Naxtech.com

    11 April 2008 15:11pm

    Denis Kondopoulos

    Try  www.naxtech.com .      Not specialising specifically in Japanese but have certainly done Search Engine Optimisation work in foreign languages such as Italian, Greek and Chinese.

  3. Mark Digizest

    MD at Digizest

    12 April 2008 19:41pm

    Mark Digizest

    try TD Technology - i know they have offices in Japan - they primarly offer Software but may know SEO Japanese agenices.

  4. Ian Harris Enterprise

    CEO at Search Laboratory

    13 April 2008 12:33pm

    Ian Harris

    This page http://www.searchlaboratory.com/japan_sem.html has some information and this company can help you with this.

    On 08:28:02 11 April 2008 twc wrote:

    Anyone an expert on SEO in Japan ? Whats different form the UK/US markets. I know Yahoo is the dominant search engine but thats about it.

    What things would I need to be aware of when setting out to optimise a site in japan ?

    Better still - can anyone recommend and SEO agency that specialises in the Japanese marketplace

  5. Jeremy Spiller Gold

    MD at White Hat Media

    14 April 2008 20:48pm

    Jeremy Spiller

    Try Greig Holbrook at Oban Strategy www.obanmultilingual.com. 01273 704434. They're multi-lingual SEO experts and could easily handle this.

    I should declare that we have worked in partnership with them where multi-lingual SEO is required with us doing the English and they are very good at what they do.

    Jem

    White Hat Media

    www.whitehatmedia.com

  6. Borislav Kolev

    onlinebusiness-guide.com

    15 April 2008 02:41am

    Borislav Kolev

    Optimize your Japanese site mainly for Yahoo!

    Yahoo!’s algorithm takes a more content based approach to the search results. While there is importance placed on incoming links, Yahoo! does not place the same level of importance on links as Google’s algorithm. That is not to say that links are unimportant to Yahoo!. Links are very important. They are simply not weighted as heavily in the search calculations as they are with the Google search results.

    Most websites have meta tags in them. While of extremely limited, if any, value to the Google algorithm, meta tags carry some impact in the Yahoo! search placements. Since the meta tags are already in place, they provide some help with your Yahoo! optimization efforts. Be sure that you use only the most important keywords and only for keywords found on the page itself. Limit your meta tags to a maximum of five or six to a page, listing them from most to least important.

    Each page should be given a unique title that includes the keywords found within that page’s copy. Yahoo! values page titles highly in its algorithm. As on page content, good page titles are what appears to be Yahoo!’s policy, of rewarding page content heavily.

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  7. Aftab Siddiqui

    CEO at The eMarketing Consultants

    15 April 2008 08:51am

    Aftab Siddiqui

    SEO for Japanese web site is the same except that you will require backlinks from Japanese web site plus you need to have japanese domain.

    I can provide SEO service you you need. I have over 7 years experienece in the field of Search Marketing.

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