Even here.
In all ChinesePod has learners in over 100 countries. You can probably guess the obvious ones - US, UK China, UK, Germany, etc. However, you might be surprised to know that ChinesePod has subscribers in places like North Korea and the Vatican City. Here’s a list of some interesting spots that where you will find ChinesePod subscribers:
Botswana
Solomon Islands
Turkmenistan
Eritrea
Vatican City
Tunisia
East Timor
Martinique
Kenya
Mozambique
Kiribati
Oman
Ethiopia
Malawi
Faroe Islands
Saint Lucia
Burkina Faso
Rwanda
French Polynesia
Liberia
Zimbabwe
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Bouvet Island
Guinea
Comoros
Cayman Islands
Tuvalu
St. Helena
Barbuda
Cape Verde
US Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands
Bosnia & Herzegowina
Korea ,Republic of
Ken Carroll
The forum clustrmap is getting a nice coverage: http://clustrmaps.com/counter/......com/forum
Hey World
Speak out and join us in conversation, it doesn’t hurt. Many of us would love to talk to you. Think about it talking to the WORLD!!!!
Mike in Jubei
I was actually born another planet in another solar system approximately 463 light years from Earth. I can’t tell you the name of planet as it can’t be translation in any Earth languages.
BTW, I think if you haven’t already, should put some work into search optimization. I entered ’study Chinese’ in both Yahoo and Google and you guys weren’t at the top of the list. With your consistant online presence you really should be. Search optimization, get to the top of that list where you deserve to be.
Do you think it’s the Pope listening to Cpod on his iPod?
Lantian,
I know that we’re not strong in search optimization (SEO). The fact is that the strong players that show up on Google search have existed since the mid 90s. It is hard to unseat many of these incumbents. We’ve been slowly moving up the rankings in Google but not as fast we should. The options are to (a) hire an SEO specialist [can’t find a good one], or (b) use black hat tactics to try to game Google [too dangerous - you can get banned for that]. We show more prominently on Yahoo, but Google is the one to beat.
If it is the Pope listening to us, he’ll probably end up teaching us. The guy speaks about a zillion languages.
Bazza
It all makes sense now.
Mike in Jubei
Hey, how come Taiwan’s not up there?? I’m a customer who lives in Taiwan.
Hi Bazza,
how many tones does your language have?
It doesn’t have any tones, it’s not a vocal language.
Bazza wrote:
“I was actually born another planet in another solar system approximately 463 light years from Earth. I can’t tell you the name of planet as it can’t be translation in any Earth languages.”
Gosh, Yorkshire has changed a lot recently!
Ken
I’m Vietnamese, but study in the US, but (again) currently in Taiwan. Which country should I put down?
All of a sudden I don’t feel very interesting, yet very interested…
Are you sure that there are subscribers from North Korea?
North Korea = Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
South Korea = Republic of Korea
Kazu,
Yes, we have one for sure.
Ken
WORDS WORK - Back in July 2006 I suggested some search optimization was called for, you’all said, ohh it takes years to get up in the ranks, some sites have been there since the 90’s. Ah-huh.
Well, look we’re you’re at now, less than one year later. (see stats below) Cpod is ‘learning’ but is it ’studying’?
Nobody can rest on their laurels, and I’ve noticed how Cpod has improved the new copy for the intros with each podcast.
A suggestion:
-use the word ’study’ more. The intro texts are now all quite interesting and include the words ‘mandarin’ and ‘learn’…but not ’study’. You do want to move up in that ranking also right?
One of Cpod’s greatest strengths is the fresh, daily content (which includes that searchable intro text), and both people and search engines like that. Mix it up a bit with ’study’.
If you also go back and re-write some of the intros to include ’study’ don’t do it all in one go, just do a small percentage and increment it slowly. As you already hold the high-rank for ‘learn’ I’d suggest the best next-step is to put ’study’ in more of your new podcasts.
There’s nothing ‘blackhat’ about this, just getting the word out on stuff you really have.
Google:
chinese podcast #1
learn chinese #1
mandarin chinese # on the first page
study chinese # not in the top 10
Yahoo:
chinese podcast #1
learn chinese #6
mandarin chinese #19
study chinese # not in the top 10