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An Overview of Popular Online Payment Methods in China
How to be paid timely and safely is a major concern to foreign businesses that want to enter China’s market, especially when you own an online shop. Some clients of ours decided to go with credit cards...
View ArticleCN Domains Become Available to Individuals Again
According to news from CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) on May 28th, new regulations on .cn domain registration will take effect on May 29th 2012, which makes .cn domains available to...
View ArticleIs There a Dictatorial Ranking Factor in Search Engine?
Recently I happened to read about a famous economic theory named “Arrow’s paradox“, and inevitably related it to search engines. Quoted from Wiki: “The framework for Arrow’s theorem assumes that we...
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Compare the SERPs of Top 4 eCommerce Sites on Baidu
It’s well acknowledged in the SEO world that search engine results pages (SERPs) are a very valuable source of insights. You can really find a great deal of interesting information there, from...
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Free Chinese Social Media Icons for Popular SNS in China
This icon set includes the icons for popular Chinese social media websites, including Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, RenRen, Kaixin, and QZone. Kudos for our graphic design shifu Wu Kang, who spent his...
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All Websites Should Use DNSPod in China
DNSPod is a Chinese intelligent DNS hosting service provider launched in in March, 2006 and acquired by Tencent in August 2011 . By July 2012, DNSPod has over 500 thousand users, supporting more than...
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Baidu CNY Updates: Canonical, Crawl-delay and Disavow Tool
The Chinese New Year is a very big day to all Chinese people and usually nobody is at work, but surprisingly, Baidu seems to have rolled out quite a few updates during the period – below are three of...
View ArticleForget Google and Use These Hosted JavaScript Libraries in China
Using popular javascript libraries like jQuery hosted on the CDNs of Google, Microsoft and others is a common practice for web developers. It can improve the website’s performance in terms of latency,...
View ArticleAdd Ignored Chinese Search Engines to Google Analytics
By default, Google Analytics recognizes only around 40 search engines, according to the official Default Search Engine List on Google Developers. But in real world, there should be more than just 40...
View ArticleBaidu’s Anti-Spam Algorithm Updates 2013 (So Far)
Baidu has released two major anti-spam algorithm updates in 2013 so far, one in February and the other in May, both of which I think very important. So, instead of waiting till the end of 2013, I...
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WeChat is Becoming Bad for Marketing
Being honest, I did believe and was excited WeChat’s Public Accounts could become another Weibo as a platform that is suitable for online marketing, with its huge user base of 400 million users that’s...
View ArticleHow Baiduspider Handles HTTP Status Codes
Http status codes are a series of pre-defined three-digit integers that represent certain types of responses web servers send to requests. For example, 200 means the server successfully returned the...
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Baidu Will Punish Irrelevant Onsite Search Result Pages
How to get traffic when you have little content? Well, before Panda, you could do a keyword research, set up tons of static onsite search result or directory pages listing the limited content you have,...
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Mobile SEO for Baidu – Rules, Tools and Best Practices
According to Global mobile statistics 2013 Part A from mobiThinking, Chinese people really love cellphones. In 2013, the total number of mobile subscribers in China reached 12.18 billion, accounting...
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Baidu Structured Data WordPress Plugin
As SEOs, we all remember the old days when search engines were so dumb that they purely relied on meta tags to “understand” the content of a webpage. Although today’s search engines have much stronger...
View ArticleTop 8 Rules for WeChat Marketing
Social media marketing on WeChat is a little tricky, as I previously wrote about. However, if you already have an existing user base on other social media platforms like Weibo, you may as well bring...
View ArticleGoogle Fonts Unstable in China – Here is How to Fix It
Since June, the instability of Google’s services has reached a whole new level in China. Google Web Search and Gmail were accessible very occasionally before that, but now it’s safe to say they are...
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Common Misunderstandings About Baidu
Everyday I am being asked a lot of questions about Internet stuff in China, especially questions about Chinese search engines, both at work and off work. One of the topics I have been asked about most...
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What Is Baidu Zhida
At Baidu World Conference 2014 held in Beijing on September 3rd, Baidu introduced a new service named Baidu Zhida. I assume Pinyin may kill a large portion of our readers, so first let me make sure you...
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How to Optimize HTTPS Sites for Baidu
In August Google announced HTTPS as a new ranking signal, and since then I have seen a lot of websites, not only websites that collect sensitive user information such as online stores, but also sites...
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