Yandex SEO: Will a domain with 'porn' get penalized in CIS search results?
 

Hi! So I have a website of my client, pornagency.eu, will 'porn' in the domain name affect its SEO promotion in CIS Yandex search engine ?

Is the Russian Yandex a Google Clone? Not exactly, but many in the SEO community consider Yandex to be the closest Google alternative with the most similar search results of international search engines. It was also revealed in Yandex’s source code that they regularly scrape Google SEO results to apply to their own ranking algorithms.


Negative Ranking Factors

• Adult content (eg, Porn, Nasty Content, Vulgarities)
• Broken embed videos
• Excessive display ads
• High bounce rate and low time on page
• Large areas use Flash Player

Positive Ranking Factors

• Links from Wikipedia
• Keywords in Anchor Text
• Local Ranking Factors: Ratio of Clicks from Local Users
• Number of Times Bookmarked
• Commercial Intent – has products or offers for sale
• Russian Language
• Use of Ngram keywords (related, relevant terms used in content)
• Use of synonyms
• Has a blog, especially if a “livejournal.com” blog
• Renders well on IoS, Android, Tablet, Mobile, and Desktop

Is there anything "russian" that is not a clone?

Yea from what I hear Russians hate porn since it's banned there.. and only people who hate things ban them.

exactly…

They have ban on gambling too but go look at any of their sites. Nothing BUT gambling. Russian literally piss on the law. Its a country where money talks. if you have money and power, you do what ever the fuck you want. 5 wives? No problem.