Seo and ads for Baidu (china)

[Netboost]

Has anyone have experience doing seo for the baidu search engine? I have a client who wants to target businesses in china so we are exploring options for PPC and SEO. Any ideas or tips would be much appreciated?

I was thinking of getting a bi-lingual mini-site made that would catch leads from seo and ads. Can anyone suggest any chinese PPC/seo freelancers?

[augustos]

Hello,

I live in CHina and work as SEO here, but regarding the BAIDU search engine...

I heard that you can buy ranks literally.

Most of the companies I know here is SEO about Google, because normally my chinese website get ranks for yahoo ( http://www.yahoo.cn/ ) , and google hk ( www.google.hk )

[ericsangerma]

Hi Joshua,

I'm probably too late, but I still wanted to add my 2 cents. To do PPC on Baidu, you need to be a registered company in China and show them a copy of your business licence. This is why it is quite difficult to apply for a Baidu account if you are outside of China.

As far as SEO is concerned it might be also difficult to rank for competitive keywords. There are some differences between optimizing your site for Baidu, compared to Google.

Finally, if you want to have a chinese version of your site, you'd better host it in China and use a .cn name for loading time reasons but also to make sure your site will not be blocked in China.

Hope this helps.

[PaulCoffey]

Hi Josh,

I manage a Chinese language website (www.kungfuenglish.com).  I share the sentiments of the other responders who have suggested you host the site on a local server. In our experience, having a regular .com domain has not been a problem for us.

For the China SEO Service, I've been very happy with the service provided by Ryan and his team at www.chineseseoshifu.com.

[jesse-landry]

WOW there are 916 views on this topic? Weird. Anybody know why?? I'm very curious.

[PaulCoffey]

Looks like "china seo" and "baidu" are hot topics right now!