I'm thinking of expanding my site into China but have a couple of basic questions: 1. I'm interested in reaching mainland China primarily. Will anyone from mainland China be able to find my site through Google? Or do you have to be on Baidu to be found? 2. Do mainland Chinese sites typically use Pinyin or Traditional character sets? 3. Can mainland Chinese use Paypal to buy things? Any help is much appreciated.
I know China is alot stricter about internet stuff...I can't answer your question but you should try googling it Good luck.
1. I'm interested in reaching mainland China primarily. Will anyone from mainland China be able to find my site through Google? Or do you have to be on Baidu to be found? - most of them are using baidu (more than 70%), it is better to rank good in baidu if you target china market 2. Do mainland Chinese sites typically use Pinyin or Traditional character sets? - Pinyin is an enunciation, not the character. basically there are two type of character, they call it as Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. China is using Simplified Chinese 3. Can mainland Chinese use Paypal to buy things? - Yes, they can. China is one of the country with Paypal Total Payment Solution. However, most of them is using alipay compare to paypal
- Simplified Chinese characters. - It depends what you are selling, Alipay is the Chinese paypal and Taobao is the Chinese eBay / Amazon. - Most people use Baidu in Mainland China.