SEO for Baidu.com

Hi,
If anyone has practical SEO experience with Baidu.com (currently main Chinese search engine) -- please share it here.

Thanks,
CKelvin

 

can you write what you have done until now?

pls write it before

 

Basically -- nothing much, just regular on-page stuff. Simply not sure where to start.

 

Doesnt Baidu have any instructions on what should be done ? just like google does ?

I don't think it would be much difference than google. I do not have any experience on Baidu, i am speaking from the algorithm point of view.

 

There are a few, rather vague. I’m interested in someone’s real-life experience.

 

Hi ckelvin, I am from China, I can get some baidu.com seo information for you , if you need. You can give me messenge.

kevin

 

Baidu is essentially like Alta Vista or Ask Jeeves used to be like around 1998 or 1999. For example they love meta tags and internal links. Also get a .cn domain name.

(I can't post a link on the forum at the moment, but PM me and I'd be glad to send it along).

 

you can do seo in two ways
white hat ( which is exepted, but time consuming)
or
Black hat ( which is not excepted by major engines, but is quick)
it depends what you exactly want to do
these might give you some info
http://cashound.blogspot.com/2007/07/seo-do-it-right-way.html
http://cashound.blogspot.com/2007/07/blogging-for-seo-success.html
http://cashound.blogspot.com/2007/07/keywords-in-seo-key-to-success.html

 

Agreed that .cn is best, but other extensions are also acceptable. For example, searching Baidu for either 孩子 (child) or 孩子们 (children) brings up dot com net org tv etc. and searching for 证券报刊 brings up .com and .cn.

Unfortunately, my 孩子们.com and 证券报刊.com are parked and do not yet rank. Next project after Japanese....

 

I hear black hat seo is rife on Baidu.com.
It's a complex world of link exchanges etc to get top rankings.

Also if you site is not translated in Chinese or of interest to the Chinese i feel it's a bit of a waste of time to seo specifically for Chinese search engines.\

Stick to optimizing for google, google still has around a 20% share in the Chinese market, which is still pretty big. (Yahoo about 7%)

 

If you SEO for Google and have Chinese content, you will do well with Baidu, I hear.