Non-English Speaking Webmasters

[oldbrad]

Originally Posted by redglow

Hmmm, good question Licker4U.
I live in a small corner of the world, and total we are 4.5 mill people living here. Take away the people under legal age, and the people not connected to the internet, and we are down to half of that number.
So, let's say there are 2.25 mill people online above the age of 18.
Not everyone are looking for porn, and not all looking for porn are gonna pay for it.... And not everyone got a creditcard.....
If i was planning on making porn for the few people here actually looking for porn and having a creditcard they would use to purcase porn, well, I'd better find something else to do....

And, people here are using english words when searching for porn anyway, so guess I'll be making stuff targeted to the english speaking people instead of writing in my own useless language...

great input. I didn't even think about the fact that non english speakers would use english search terms. I guess possibly using english keywords, but the content of the site in "language of choice" would be a great alternative, given that those spoken countries use some form of currency and a percentage of the pop. with net access.

Even thought only 1,000,000 people in a certain ""location, language" market might have the funds, availability and access to be able to sign up or buy from a site, if only a couple dozen webmasters are catering to those people then the percentages may be in that webmasters favor.

Being 1 of a couple dozen people with a few sites each going after 200,000 potential customers v.s being 1 of 50,000 webmasters with hundreds of sites each going after customers that are used to mountains of free porn and being catered to foremost.

If i could speak a foreign language well enough i might give it a try. There must be other issues as well, being that some of the biggest sites are run by foreign webmasters. If they could be as successful in their native language, they would probably do that.

[redglow]

hmmm, guess I'll check out a couple of search terms that goes with my useless language, and mite even try building a site using it....
Haven't even crossed my mind to be honest, but can be worth a shot.
But, when it comes to porn surfers my guess would be they do their searching in english.. And most people over 18 where I'm from know english well enough for english sites not being a problem.
And building english sites, I target a lot more people, but sure - the idea of at least try building a site in my own language is kinda tempting, "Don't shoot it if ya haven't tried it" is kinda my motto lol