Non-English Speaking Webmasters

[Jim]

If most of the money in this business is in English speaking websites, why does it surprise anyone that people that at least partially understand English try to get a piece of the pie?

If tomorrow, the Chinese Government decided they loved or even allowed porn, you can bet your ass many non Chinese speaking webmasters would attempt to get in on that action.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Jim

If most of the money in this business is in English speaking websites, why does it surprise anyone that people that at least partially understand English try to get a piece of the pie?

In my case five reasons:

(1) Although there are more English speakers in the world, there are also more English speaking webmasters, so in the end there are the same number of possible customers per webmaster. In fact from RedGlow's post there is actually a higher percentage of customers per website, so (if you do not speak English) it should be easier to convert sales from your country than the English speaking world.

(2) Thanks to the chimp you currently have running your country, the US dollar is pretty worthless compared with most other countries' currency. This means that if you live outside the US and get paid in $US, you have to sell twice as many memberships to make your money as you would if you sold them in your own country's currency.

(3) I live in Britain, and I speak English, which is nearly the same language as is spoken in America, so it is easy for me to design sites for American audiences. But for the past few years I have been mostly concentrating on British sites, and only pushing my American sponsors when I have some spare time because (mostly due to the last point) it is a lot easier to make money in UK£ and Euros than it is in US$ sites.

(4) American law is changing fast, and although I know most of you like to try and ignore this or pretend it is not happening, in a few years it is going to be close to impossible to legally make money from Internet porn in USA. If you are American you have no choice but to deal with the problem, but if you are not American you can (and should) be building up your business outside the USA for when the shit hits. Otherwise, when it does, you will be starting from scratch again.

(5) George W. has basically been gambolling with your economy. What he is trying to do is working at the moment, and might continue to work for a long time. But it is more likely to end in a God awful financial crash. This will no doubt affect the entire world, but it will start in the USA, and if your money comes mostly from non American people you will have three to twelve months grace to gather what you can when (if) the crash happens. If most of your money comes from US porn sites you will have no time, so unless you already have enough in the bank to see you through a depression you will be screwed.

[Licker4U]

[quote=ecchi;335668...in a few years it is going to be close to impossible to legally make money from Internet porn in USA.[/QUOTE]

That's absurd.....

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

That's absurd.....

Yeah, and a year ago people running gambolling sites thought it was absurd in their area too. Now look how many are filing for bankruptcy.

Actually that is a good example of what I was saying. A lot of European companies jumped on the 'online casino' bandwagon, and hit the American market because it was the biggest. Now most of them have gone from multi million dollar profits to bankrupt almost over night, and those that have survived are those that concentrated mostly on their own country.

And an even more frightening point for European webmasters: Some of the Europeans who ran casino sites aimed at American customers are fighting extradition proceedings, and will probably end up spending time in American jails. Take Licker4U's post as a warning. As far as I am aware his opinion is the rule, not the exception, most American webmasters are proudly refusing to believe the signs. In America they still respect their politicians (even when they know they are incompetent crooked assholes), they will not put up a fight until it is too late.

[redglow]

I'm starting to become a thread spammer here lol
I did have french at school, for 3 years, but that's a long time ago.... Wouldn't even think of marketing anything in french, simply because my spelling and grammar would make everyone close my site.
If you don't know a language, it's silly trying to compete with the ones who do.
But, to go from there to say that everyone should be marketing in their own language..... that's a big step. As long as I can look at what I've made and tell myself it looks good, the spelling included, that's all I aim for.

Originally Posted by Greenie

I read your posts yesterday & it clicked in that if you didn't tell me that English was not your native language, I wouldn't have known. So I don;t think you have too much to be worried about

Phew, guess I'll try submitting freesites to Link-O-Rama then, with the language issue out of the way, it just comes down to my missing ability to build those sites

I have actually spent four hours now, checking keywords for my sites..
And I tried to find good sex-related keywords in my own language.....
Think the average search was 200 in January, with 10000 matches on google... For the phrase "free sex pic"/"free sex picture" there were 0 people searching for it, and 69000 matches.....
Nawww, think I'll drop that for now lol, it's easier for me to adapt to english than it would be to change the way people here actually use the net.
So, for me, the problem would be too low demand for what I'm offering.

But, found plenty of great keywords to use in english, with only 20-80 K hits on google (yeah, people do actually search for those words and phrases, many of them did have twice as many searches in January as there are matches on google for them)
As long as I try do things the smart way, and not go for the overused words, I guess my SE traffic will be better with my pages written in english than in my native tounge.

Gotta jump out of this thread now.