2007/11/09

Naver Now by Numbers

The following numbers are sourced from http://story.naver.com
▶Naver members: 28,000,000
▶Visitors per day: 16,000,000
▶Page view per day: 1,000,000,000
▶Search visitors per day: 11,000,000
▶Search PV: 190,000,000

▶Cafe(forum) numbers: 3,500,000
▶Cafe visitors per day: 5,300,000
▶Cafw PV per day: 160,000,000
▶Cafe creation per day: 6,500

▶Active blogs: 10,000,000
▶Blog visitors per day: 6,200,000
▶blog PV per day: 100,000,000
▶Blog creation per day: 20,000

▶Junior Naver members: 5,500,000
▶Junior Naver visitors per day: 1,800,000
▶Junior Naver PV per day: 170,000,000

2007/10/11

Search Engine Traffic Share in Korea

Recently, the Korean leading weblog analysis company, http://www.acecounter.com/,

released search engine traffic share of 3 quarters as follows,

Search Engine July Aug. Sep.

Naver 71.20% 70.48% 71.43%

Daum 12.60% 13.02% 12.01%

Yahoo Korea 5.72% 5.89% 5.72%

Empas 1.49% 1.61% 1.58%

Google Korea 1.49% 1.77% 1.62%

Nate 1.33% 1.37% 1.29%

Korean Portal NAVER ranked Top 5 in the world

Korean Search Engine/Portal Naver was ranked as the top worldwide search property with 2 billion searches in August.
According to Comscore.com , Google Sites ranked as
the top worldwide search property in August with 37.1 billion searches conducted.
U.S. based Yahoo came in second with 8.5 billion searches,
followed by China's Baidu with 3.2 billion. Microsoft's MSN trailed Baidu
by around a billion searches.

Comscore says "Seeing Asian search engines like China's Baidu.com and Korea's NHN ranked alongside Google and Yahoo underscores the fact that search has become a truly global phenomenon.The continued development of search in international markets will undoubtedly present compelling opportunities for savvy marketers on a global scale.”

Note)NAVER is Top 5 ? In small country !
Of course, Korea has the most activated internet users.
Naver has a kind of portal like Yahoo serving various contents.
Furthermore, Naver's inland search share is heading for 80%.
So, search engine marketing for Korean market should be aimed for Naver first.

2007/10/04

Top 20 Popular Websites of Korea

The following list features the popular websites based

on Korean internet users.

Rank

Site

Classification

1

www.naver.com

Portal

2

www.daum.net

Portal

3

www.nate.com

Portal

4

www.cyworld.com

Community

5

kr.yahoo.com

Portal

6

www.empas.com

Portal

7

www.auction.co.kr

Market Place

8

www.gmarket.co.kr

Market Place

9

www.sayclub.com

Community

10

www.netmarble.net

Game

11

www.hangame.com

Game

12

www.paran.com

Portal

13

www.pmang.com

Game

14

www.kbstar.com

Bank

15

www.chosun.com

News

16

www.joins.com

News

17

www.nexon.com

Game

18

www.pandora.tv

UCC

19

www.dnshop.com

Market Place

20

www.interpark.com

Market Place

25

www.google.co.kr

Search Engine

Source: www.rankey.com

This rank is based on Korean market share of visits

from Rankey.com tool users dated Oct.03,'07.

2007/09/10

Site registration for NAVER.com is FREE !!!

As you may know www.NAVER.com is the No. 1 portal(search engine) sharing over 70% in Korean internet user.
In the meantime, they charged USD210 as a site registration fee.
Now, from Sep.06, the registration is free.
It's good opportunity your site can promote in Korea.
If you have Korean lettered pages, it will be better.
The Google sharing is under 5%.
So, to aiming NAVEr is indispensible.
Though I engage in SEOing in Korea, the Search Engine Optimization in Korea is so complicated.
Of course, SEO sence is needed in site registration.

2007/08/21

Daum.net : At a glance

Daum.net is the 2nd largiest portal site in Korea.
They use Google Search Engine D/B at web search.
Currently, they strengthen UCC and Blog services.
Teir strong merit is on forum(cafe) and E-mail service.

2007/08/20

NAVER.com: At a glance


Naver.com is the No.1 portal sharing 70% over in Korea.

The above is a main page of Naver.

Click image. You can see largely.

2007/08/19

Search engine(Portal) market share in Korea

As you may know, the market share in Korea is big different with overseas situation.
According to the wrecent reposrt from www.acecounter.com, the share is as follows,
Note: The share mean "SE to site" from Acecounter customers.
www.naver.com: 71.1%
www.daum.net: 12.1%
www.yahoo.co.kr: 5.92%
www.empas.com(+ www.nate.com): 3.16%
www.googl.co.kr: 1.95%
### Naver ↓, Daum ↑, Yahoo ↓, Empas →, Google ↑

The above search engines except for Google are manageing integrated search including
Ad.,News, Knowledge in, Cafe, Blog, Site, Web search, etc.
So, though the Google is steadily increasing share, the Search Engine Optimization(SEO) in Korea needs more SEO techniques.
Of course, the SEO techniques for Google, Yahoo, MSN are valid.

2007/08/16

Introduction of www.SEOinKorea.com

Hi ! Overseas friends !
Welcome to visit SEOinKorea.com.
This is Search Engine Optimization(SEO) community site for domestic SEO and overseas SEO.
Korean SEO is so different with yours.
As you may know, http://www.naver.com/ has over 70% share.The next engines are http://www.daum.net/ , http://www.nate.com/ , http://www.empas.com/ ,http://www.yahoo.co.kr/ , etc.
Google has only under 3% share.
Huh !However, NAVER is a kind of portal though they operate web search robot.
So, in Korea, it needs more complicated methods in SEO and SEM.
To meet this circumstances, our site have the following contents.
-.SEO Information
-.Search Engine News
-.SEO Tools
-.SEO Tactics each search engine
-.Free/paid AD info.
-.Free site review
-.Blog Marketing
-.EtcThis community is well organized with SEO/SEM experts,webmasters,web designers,commercial/non-commercial site owners, etc.
At here, we can/you can...-.SEO consulting.
-.Q&A in SEO/SEM field.
-.Introduction of SEO Experts for SEO(Even overseas SEO).
-.Introduction of SEM Experts for Korean market.
-.Site translation with Korean letters.
-.Act site registration for you.
-.Affiliation with SEO/SEM concerned sites or companies.
-.Etc.Welcome to visit again and look forward to having your comments at here, ENGLISH bulletin.
Best regards,