{"id":581,"date":"2012-11-28T13:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=581"},"modified":"2012-11-28T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T22:00:50","slug":"best-site-for-learning-japanese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/best-site-for-learning-japanese\/","title":{"rendered":"Best site for learning Japanese"},"content":{"rendered":"

What do you think is the best site for learning Japanese (excluding dictionaries)?<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, I’ve been trying to add more content and tune my site to rank higher for searches on “learning japanese” not just “japanese grammar”. (You can compare which searches are more popular with Google Trends<\/a>). When I did some ad hoc testing at the time, it ranked somewhere around the 40-50s.<\/p>\n

I still have quite a bit of work to do on the content side but here’s the results from the last few months. Unfortunately, the data doesn’t go back farther and it’s not representative as over half of the search queries do not provide the search keyword (unless I become an adwords customer apparently). As it is, the site ranking has been improved to an average of 6.8.<\/p>\n

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I expect the CTR to be miserable until the site ranking goes up to at least around 3-4. Lately, I’ve been concentrating on my own studies, but I’d like to eventually get back to working on the complete guide soon. In the meantime, if you think my site is useful for learning Japanese, any inbound links with the phrase “learn Japanese” would be appreciated.<\/p>\n

Oddly, the most common search query was “katakana”, about 2-3 times more impressions than “learn japanese” and “hiragana”. I wonder why? Maybe I should beef up my Katakana sections?<\/p>\n

Research indicates that page load time is also critical for traffic. So I also installed Boost for my drupal installation to speed things up a bit yesterday. The results are inconclusive but it does seem a bit snappier to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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