Archive for February, 2012
Dead Link Management – Baidu Webmaster Tools New Feature
Baidu has been criticized by webmasters for displaying cached links that have been removed from websites. As a response to that, Baidu launched a new feature in its Beta version Webmaster Tools, i.e. Dead Link Management. Webmasters are always optimizing, updating or eliminating obsolete pages, and that will result in many dead links of 404 [...]
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 [...]
