Seems Like India Dominates The Web

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Everytime I check alexa on sites states which I do on any new network it always seems like Inda dominates the traffic. Why is this? So many websites, their main traffic comes from this poor county. Go figure...

What are your thoughts on the subject matter?
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  • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
    Here's one possibility...

    Alexa only compiles data from people who have installed the Alexa toolbar and have it active. At first, this was mostly techie types, but in recent years, it's more marketers, particularly SEOs. Lots of seo companies and services in India.

    Another possibility is that some of the more popular rank checker software and such run on Indian servers, so Alexa is going to pick that up as traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sagar Mehta
    Well, there are a billion and a half of us out here, so we definitely dominate most all we touch

    John made some good points.

    Plus, a lot of fake traffic, unfortunately, also originates from India sometimes because people who don't know what they're doing hire people to just visit their site. That boosts traffic, and helps in selling the site showing that it has good traffic going for it. This is why it's a good idea to check traffic stats in detail when buying a site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rod Cortez
    Originally Posted by EPoltrack77 View Post

    Everytime I check alexa on sites states which I do on any new network it always seems like Inda dominates the traffic. Why is this? So many websites, their main traffic comes from this poor county. Go figure...

    What are your thoughts on the subject matter?
    Another possiblity is their click farms that are based out of India. Many celebrities make themselves look more popular because they will purchase fake likes, comments, and clicks from click / link farms based out of India.

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  • Profile picture of the author theultimate1
    Oh, and we're not a poor country by the way.
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  • Profile picture of the author ibarena
    1. India ranks fifth in number of billionaires in the world (far above UK and Canada) and 2nd in Asia. So, I will not consider India to be a poor country:
    List of countries by the number of US dollar billionaires - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    That's an old age thought to consider India to be a third world... but things have changed now.

    2. India ranks second in number of cell phone users in the world. So Indian are much more tech savvy compared to all other countries.

    3. India ranks third in number of internet users in the world.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...Internet_users

    4. India has second largest population in the world which is much more than few continents in the world.

    So considering all the above reasons, getting a large chunk of traffic from India should not be surprising. I hope this helps.
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