hi guys, if you want to do SEO for these chinese SE's, do you need to have chinese text in your HTML? do you need chinese characters and engish characters in your meta tags to get good SEO for google and baidu together???
It seems pretty obvious to me that if you want to rank in a chinese search engine, you need to have chinese content and yes, that requires chinese characters. For English language sites relevant for China - Baidu should be able to handle that, but you would really have to find out what kind of search engine algorithm Baidu uses. I guess the old mantra: test, test, test works for this. To rank chinese content in google, you would need to have links to the said chinese pages (preferably from pages hosted in china). Since google is quite capable of showing pages in all kinds of languages, Chinese is not likely to be the exception. This is just a version of regional or language search for google.
yes i agree with google that it can translate, but baidu is such a big search engine that im sure there can be a easy way to get around the chinese characters
The basics: depends on the language you are targeting. And for the Chinese market Chinese would be the preferred language for most searchers.