SEOers upsetting Baidu or Baidu upsetting SEOers
A couple of days ago, Baidu placed a message in the search results to any keyword that contains SEO, and placed its Baidu Search Engine Optimization Guideline in the position 1 result. The message says “Do not trust any pitch or case study from SEO companies, and inappropriate search engine optimization will jeopardize the site [...]
Artist changed punctuation search on Baidu and Sogou
People who are familiar with search engines know that the keywords to be used for search engines can be a mixture of Chinese, English, and numbers, and can also be one or more words, phrases, short words and sentences, but cannot be mere punctuations. Eason Chan, who is the famous music artist in Hong Kong, [...]
Will using Content Delivery Networks affect SEO
As technology advances, more and more companies distribute their website content over Content Delivery Networks (“CDN”), instead of hosting sites on a single server. This new approach may lead to some questions about SEO and issues that could be of main concern are as follows: Sites distributed over CDN might seem to be hosted on [...]
Sina Weibo Reaches Its Plateau
Weibo has made great progress in 2011, not only with Sina but also Tencent etc., which may exceed many industry experts’ predictions. Weibo is not merely an entertainment platform as Weibo is also widely used as a communication channel between government and people and helps to hold public-service activities. But even so, there seems to [...]
Do you have Baidu Share code on your web pages
This week, Baidu started including “Baidu Share” data in its search results. It looks similar to Google +1, but it does not work exactly like Google +1. The data is from Baidu Share, and it only applies to websites that have Baidu share code. The functionality should be still in the testing stage, and it [...]
The Largest Invisible Baidu Patron – HealthCare in China
A couple days ago, I was having a chat with several sales guys from the digital marketing industry. One of them was complaining that the big FMCG brands are too full of themselves to deal with, and the other was saying that he had spent 12 months following up a travel sector client and had [...]
