Emerging Online Economies

63% of the total global online population is non-English speaking.

With so much of the economy of Dubai deriving from international source markets and with so many companies reliant on marketing themselves and competing in many different languages around the world, multilingual search marketing is a necessity for most companies.

Emerging online economies are increasing at a frantic pace and Sekari is in the perfect geographical location to represent your brand in many new and exciting markets.

Our localised approach to multilingual SEO is to ensure that each market is handled individually taking into account cultural and behavioural distinctions.

Online Growth

During the past year, the Asia-Pacific Internet audience grew 14% to 319 million visitors in April 2008, outpacing the growth of all other worldwide regions.

The strongest growth occurred in India, which surged 27% to more than 28 million Internet users, followed by China, which grew 14% to more than 102 million visitors.

Taiwan, Malaysia and New Zealand also achieved double-digit growth. Meanwhile, more developed Internet markets such as Japan (3%) and Singapore (4%) experienced modest gains.

Find out more about how Sekari's organic optimisation services can benefit your organisation, where you are.

Did You Know?

• In December 2008, global Internet usage surpassed one billion users.
• 49% of internet users use search engines on a typical day. (Pew Internet, 2008)
• In January 2009, Americans conducted 13.5 billion core searches, a 7% gain versus December 2008. (comScore 2009)
• 67% of the worldwide Internet population are visiting social networks, and blogs are now outpacing email in popularity.
• Facebook is now available in 40 languages, with 60 in development, and it is now available in Arabic (March 2009).
• US search market share stabilised in January 2009, with Google accounting for 70.5% in December 2008 and 70.3% in January 2009.
• The number of Arab Internet users in the world exceeds 26.3 million.
• Baidu in China accounted for 73.2% of Chinese search share in 2008.

Chinese language search engine Baidu currently ranks #3 in worldwide search market share, behind Google and yahoo!

Internet Audience Growth in the Asia-Pacific Region.