Chinese search engine indexation

[uworlds]

Hello,

I have read that it is vital for a site to be indexed in Chinese search engines that it needs to be hosted in China on a server with a Chinese IP address, is this true?

The site in question is a .cn site, hosted in USA currently, but served via CloudFlare (which has locations in China).

Any advice on how to rank a Chinese site would be greatly appreciated, including if you know anyone who I can hire to create a Chinese sitemap file to submit to Chinese search engines (and even optimise the site).

Many thanks,
Mark

[DirkC]

No experience whatsoever - but you might want to check this guide https://builtvisible.com/baidu-seo-guide/

Dirk

[EricaMcGillivray]

That's a great place to dig in.

@Mark - One of our staffers will get to your question soon! It's his birthday today, so we told him to answer when he's recovered from celebrating.