More and more users from all over the world are gaining access to information online. For current AdSense publishers, this presents an opportunity to grow your audience globally. Our Global Spotlight series is designed to help educate, inspire, and provide you with insights into how you can grow your business and share your content in emerging markets.
Our last spotlight shared insights on how to
capture the opportunity in Indonesia. This week, we turn our lens on India, a nation with a population of over 1 billion people and 22 official languages (not including English). Check out our last post on
how and why you should create content in Hindi.
Expanding your content strategy to India may spice up your earnings. Not only does India deliciously produce over
70% of all the world’s spices, but according to eMarketer, it’s on pace to add more new mobile phone users than any other country in the world. Projections say that India will have 570M users online by 2020
1, and more than half of those users will be accessing the internet via a smartphone.
This explosion in online user growth has been estimated by eMarketer to result in more than a 3x growth in online ad spend in India ($700M in 2015 and forecasted to be $2.5bn by 2020)2. What does this mean for you? A big opportunity to expand your business into India.
In our next few blog posts, we’ll be sharing with you a 3-step strategy to start expanding your business to India, or building a new site for an Indian audience. The first step has 3 tips to get started.
If you’re new to monetization,
sign up for AdSense and start turning your #PassionIntoProfit by adding AdSense ads to your site so you can focus on your content. After all, content is king.
The first tip we’d like to look at is how and why you as publisher should do research.
When you know what users are talking about, you can participate in the conversation. But the online world moves quickly, so if you want to keep the crowds coming back to your site, your content needs to move with it.
First, use
Google’s research tools to create relevant content. Start with Google Trends. You can pinpoint hot topics based on user search trends.
Second, think with Google, literally.
This article will help interpret the demographics of India’s population.
What do you think?
Are you ready to grow your business in India? If so, why stop there? Around the world, people are using AdSense to help them do more of what they love. Turn your #PassionIntoProfit today and
sign up for Google AdSense.
Do you want to hear more from us about successfully monetizing your content in India? We regularly host live
Hangout on Air sessions to talk through best practices and ways to grow your business. Be sure to
register for
our next live session on November 17th, 2016.
Tomorrow we’ll be sharing the second part of our 3-step strategy on how to start expanding your business to India, so stay tuned and check out the other posts from our
Global Spotlight series!
Footnotes:
- eMarketer, Worldwide Internet and Mobile Users: eMarketer’s Updated Estimates and Forecast for 2015–2020, October 11, 2016
- eMarketer, Digital Ad Spending in Asia-Pacific, by Country, 2015-2020 (billions), September 12, 2016
