China Search Social Integration – Baidu and Soso Index Microblog Content
Not long ago, Sina Weibo launched Real-time Search. Seemingly like a counterstrike, Baidu started indexing Microblog content from Tencent and Netease Microblogs, which are major competitors of Sina Weibo. However, according to my research, Baidu is still testing the feature, as when only searching for a very limited number of keywords, you may find Miroblog [...]
How to Prevent Search Engines from Indexing is a Question worth Considering
In general, trying to make search engines crawl and index more content is a real headache for SEO. If you are not listed and indexed, you can have no rankings. When a website has reached a certain scale, it’s not easy to have it fully indexed, especially for websites with hundreds of thousands of pages. [...]
Will Sina Microblog be the first successful SoLoMo in China
What is SoLoMo? SoLoMo is a fashionable term in these last few months which has been coined by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He summed up the three hottest keywords to express his view of Internet development in the future. His view can be delivered as a formula: SoLoMo = Social (So) [...]
Major eCommerce Sites Have Blocked the eTao Spider – Why and What Next
Recently, major China eCommerce sites; at the beginning 360Buy, then Dangdang and Suning have blocked the eTao spider from crawling and indexing their websites. eTao is the eCommerce product search engine owned by Taobao, China’s largest eCommerce site. It’s big news but no surprise to see. To me there are two obvious reasons for this. [...]
Exploring search engine friendly practice in HTML5 – Part 2
As I mentioned in my earlier post, HTML is the latest specification for HTML and in HTML5 there are a lot of new attributes and tags which can be used for SEO. In this article, I will keep discussing how to code in a search engine friendly way in HTML5. 1. Use new HTML5 elements [...]
Time to Pay Attention on Sogou SEO in China
During the recent National Day holiday in China, Sogou temporarily overtook Google for the first time in the China search market in terms of market share relating to search volume: According to CNZZ, a leading Chinese web analytics tool, Sogou had a market share of search of 5.55% on October 6th, while the share for [...]
