Is your website blocked in China?
By Mike | October 8, 2007
With a potential of 1.3 billion people not having access to your website, you could be missing out on decent some traffic if your website is blocked in China.
Ok, not everyone in China has web access but they will surpass the US in the number of people online in the not too distant future. There is a website: Greatfirewallofchina.org (blocked in China) which is suppose to test if your website is blocked or not.
I don’t know how well it works, but it looks like my Tokyo website is not resolving here for me. I have no idea why, or how I might be able to fix this.
If you would like me to test your site, just drop your URL in the comments.
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12:00 am on October 9th, 2007
Maybe you can test mine. The market for my blog is not China so I don’t really have to worry about this. I think this blog also doesn’t have to worry too.
2:36 am on October 9th, 2007
Thanks for checking… how about
http://mapwow.com
We currently only get 0.5% of our traffic from China. We’re thinking about translating and internationalizing the language of our site, so it’d be useful to know.
The site you linked to says that “Your URL is Blocked!” for our site. :/
11:21 am on October 9th, 2007
Guys, both of your sites are ok
I think world of warcraft is huge in China. It would be definitely something to look into. Even if you could get some Chinese characters in there somewhere to pick up some search results.
1:48 am on October 10th, 2007
Hey, I’ve just typed a whole bunch of URLs into that site including a few of mine and they’re all blocked. My main concern is that I’ll get there and not be able to really work on my sites because they’re blocked. Can you test:
http://www.travoholic.com
http://www.workingholidayinfo.com
http://www.stuckinlondon.com
How are you able to work on your Tokyo site or any others that are banned? Do you just do things all offline and assume the uploads work or is there another way?
1:51 am on October 11th, 2007
Kirsty, they are all working fine.
12:46 pm on October 11th, 2007
Thanks for the follow-up Mike! Good to hear.
10:36 pm on August 27th, 2008
I still living in china but after this last sign of incivility I will move very soon to japan
thanks
Ottavio