[filmlion]

i am a professional seo guy, but mostly work in the american market, so not quite familiar with most current situation in russian SE world, however i dealt with it before.

with my new interest in IDNs i've made a research on the market and have not so bad news for you guys - those who deal with idn.coms.

there is a chance that .com will not only beat the idn.ru but also will beat the idn.newrussianidntld (say: idn.rf - both in russian: домен.рф)

while yandex is #1 se in russia (some stats say: over 54% together with mail.ru whose SERP also comes from yandex), google is heavily increasing it's presence there. some stats say it's already about 24% - which means 24% of russian internet users use google to search for something on the web. it's not so bad already (it is like yahoo in the USA).

knowing for sure that despite i personally don't like google - it has quite strong alorithm which makes its results more relevant and clearer. (i love yahoo more for the better and more relevant results, but that's not a point here). google also has so many additional cool features, plus it's famous adwords and adsense programs - the last one is a love of many russian webmasters and they will promote google that way... and a known name, almost as known as yandex (in russia.)

that's why yandex started to heavily advertise on TV, radio and other mediums - it knows that google is quite serious about taking over the lion's share in the russian SE market. many russian seo-s and webmasters are always complaining about yandex's SERP and it really has lots of problems to be solved.

any way, i can talk a lot about it - but to make the long story short - my point is that google said it would continue its growth in russia - i am sure it would! for those who don't know -google love .com (it loves .gov and .edu more but those are not our cases) - .com is the king - .com means a lot in the US and market and even in europe - the new .eu will eed really much time to beat .com.

now, u know my point - it's another argument in favor of idn.com domains - google wouldn't support .ru or a new russian idn tld - google would support .com.

all the stats are not 100% accurate but quite close to be true. hope my point makes sense for you. if you agree or disagree, let's discuss it here.

any thoughts?