Celebrating its 2nd anniversary last March, Rail Turkey became not only the most important resource about information and discussions about Turkish railways, but also one of the most visited ones.
According to Alexa, Rail Turkey is #1 among railway Turkish railway journals/reviews in English and #3 in Turkish.
We run fast
Rail Turkey is so far visited 250k times in 2015 tripling previous period (85k in first 10 months of 2014). See how we grew since kick off:
Visits to Rail Turkey’s English and Turkish Pages*
Rail Turkey is mainly read in Turkey, but has a significant follower from all over the world:
Visit of Origin in 2015 *
We’re followed all over the World
Other countries that Rail Turkey’s visitors are coming from can be classified as follows:
Visit of Origin in 2015 *
See top 10 countries of origin in 2015:
Top 10 countries sending visitors
| Turkey (Turkish pages) | 149.821 |
| Germany | 14.041 |
| Turkey (English pages) | 13.691 |
| USA | 10.363 |
| UK | 7.833 |
| France | 3.561 |
| Netherlands | 3.292 |
| Russia | 3.055 |
| Czech Republic | 2.607 |
| Romania | 2.508 |
| Switzerland | 2.315 |
| Other 146 countries | 38.923 |
Note the followers visiting English pages from Turkey. We are glad to have significant interest from expats in Turkey (3rd rank in the list).
We stay where people looks
Rail Turkey launched with the target to fill the big gap of information and become the leading think-tank and trustful resource about Turkish railways. We believe we took significant steps on this. Rail Turkey is now at top of the google searches on specific subjects about Turkish railways. Here are some examples in searches in google.com.tr:
Rail Turkey in Google searches
| Search Term | Rank | Others |
| railway in turkey | #4 | After TCDD, Wikipedia, Seat61 |
| siemens tram investment in turkey | #3 | After Turkish Investment Agency and Siemens |
| powerhaul sales in turkey | #2 | After GE |
| urban transport in turkey | #1,#2,#3 | |
| istanbul urban transport | #2 | After Wikipedia, before IETT |
| railway companies in logitrans | #1,#2,#3,#4,#5,#6 | Before Balo and Logitrans |
| railway fair turkey | #2 | After EurasiaRail |
| tcdd statistics | #1,#2 | Before TCDD |
| balo container train | #1,#2 | Before Balo and Rail Cargo |
| railway companies in turkey | #1 | |
| railway logistics turkey | #1 | |
| railway industry in turkey | #2 | After Wikipedia |
| railway investments in turkey | #2 | After Turkish Investment Agency |
| tcdd investments | #1,#2,#3 | Before TCDD |
| turkish companies in innotrans | #1,#2 | Before Innotrans |
| china turkey container train | #2,#3 | After prnewswire |
Thus, we get most of our visitors who are really searching for specific subject about railway in Turkey.
We welcomed visitors via Google search 115k times in 2015. That’s more than half of our visitors.
But we do not appear only when we are called. Rail Turkey takes place in social and institutional platforms as well. Here are Rail Turkey’s leading referrers in 2015:
Referrers Other Than Search Engines in 2015 *
* All statistics are WordPress-proven. 2015 shows the data until 22th of October.
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