Submit Site to Baidu

Baidu.com is the largest Chinese search engine in China. To ensure your new Chinese website receives organic search traffic from Baidu.com, submit your website to through Baidu’s official URL submission page.

Besides your website’s URL, you will have to enter a randomly generated captcha passcode when submitting through Baidu’s URL submission page. However, Baidu’s URL submission page is simple and it won’t require you to understand any Chinese characters.

Go to Baidu.com and check your website with the “Site:” command after about one month:

site:your-site.com

To speed up your site’s inclusion in Baidu’s index, ensure your site’s content in written in Chinese (Simplified). Alternatively, get a link from a Chinese (Simplified) web site that is already indexed in Baidu to point to your new Chinese website.

Unlike Google, Yahoo or Bing, Baidu currently offers no official search engine webmaster tools and no URL submission through sitemap in XML format.

Comments

9 Responses to “Submit Site to Baidu”

  1. SEOcompany on January 25th, 2010 6:14 am

    baidu Getting good rankings in the Baidu search engine is not an easy task if you are accustomed to working with Western search engines

  2. hi3w on January 28th, 2010 3:40 am

    Thanks for this information.
    In fact,we have never submit site to baidu.
    Baidu is a symbol of dark and slow.

  3. TG on January 31st, 2010 4:00 pm

    What about if I submit a hybrid site in traditional chinese and english? How likely it will show up in Baidu search result page?

  4. Tait on February 4th, 2010 6:55 pm

    TG, we have sites in English and Simplified Chinese that are indexed in Baidu. I’m not sure about Traditional Chinese.

    Gordon, does the site submission tool actually do anything? For Google, SEOs avoid the site submission tool. I mean, have you had sites indexed by merely submitting to Baidu without linking to those sites from other websites indexed by Baidu?

  5. Gordon Choi on February 6th, 2010 5:07 am

    As said, your site gets into Baidu’s index quicker when another site that is already indexed in Baidu points links to some of your pages.

  6. Funda on October 19th, 2010 5:55 pm

    baidu wont index me :(

  7. phil on January 30th, 2012 10:11 pm

    Gordon, is it correct that I haev to get Chinese approval to have a website show up in the search engines. Is there a way to bypass and get a domain from macau or Hong kong and still have it searchable
    in China. I have a desire to sell information products to the Chinese
    Thanks

  8. Tait on February 3rd, 2012 1:57 am

    Phil, you don’t need Chinese approval to have your site show up on Baidu or other Chinese search engines.

  9. phil on February 3rd, 2012 3:28 am

    So Gordon, you didn’t elaborate though, Would I still need to get it hosted in Hong Kong or Macau for faster downloads. Also i would want to have the website translated to Chinese as I am interested in selling digital information products online.

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