Baidu: Webmaster Tools
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Baidu: Webmaster Tools
Baidu: Webmaster Tools Overview and Guidelines Agenda • Introduction • Register • Data Submission • Domain Transfer • Monitor Web Analytics • Mobile © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 2 Introduction What is Baidu • Baidu is the leading search engine in China. • It has nearly 80% market share in China and China is the second biggest search engine market after the US. A considerable number of English searches come from these Chinese users, and the number of English searches is on the increase. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 4 Register Baidu Webmaster Tools Registration • Claiming your Baidu account: - Email address or +86 Chinese mobile number - Set up password - Enter the Captcha • If you used an email address for registration, you will get an email for activation. Click the link in your email and follow the steps. • If you have registered with mobile number, complete the registration process by verifying your mobile number. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 6 Add Your Website • Now you can login to your Baidu account by going to the homepage of Baidu webmaster tools - http://zhanzhang.baidu.com/ • You will see a similar screen as shown on the left. Click on “Add Site” button and put in your home page URL. • The next step is to verify. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 7 Verify Your Website Ownership • You have 3 options for site verification: - Download a file and upload to your root folder Verify Website Verify Help - Put the HTML Meta Tag to your top page between <head> and </head> File Validation HTML Tag Verification CNAME Verification - Verify with a CNAME record added to your domain’s DNS area under the name “zz.baidu.com” Complete Verification • Once you have verified using one of these options, click “Complete” © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 8 Site Manager • Once you are verified, your site will be added to Site Manager automatically. • This is your overview where you can see all your sites and you have options to: - Add more sites - View site details - Delete a Site • You can also view your messages like DNS errors or increase in page not found, etc. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 9 Data Submission Sitemap Submission • Submitting sitemaps in Baidu is similar to Google: - Prepare your Sitemap in these accepted formats – text and xml - Sitemap file size should neither exceed 50,000 URLs nor exceed 10 MB - Upload the Sitemap in your site’s root directory - Ensure the site for which you are submitting Sitemap is verified successfully in your account - Ensure there isn’t any Chinese characters in your Sitemap © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 11 Dead Links Submission • There are 3 ways to submit your dead links to Baidu to remove it from their index quickly - File Submission - Setup a 404 page not found redirect for all your dead links - Consolidate all your dead links and create a dead links file - Dead links file format is also same similar to Sitemap file formats – text or xml - Ensure the site you are going to submit dead links is already verified - Regular Expression Submission • Dead Links are your 404 or Page not Found links resulted due to change in URL or domain transfer. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. - Submit a formula ended with “/” or “?” - Template Submission - For pages which gets expired content - Copy code provided by Baidu and paste into the code of every page which you want to remove, between <head> and </head> - You could submit only one page as a template for those pages with the same type 12 Individual URL Submission • Similar to Sitemap and Dead Links, URL submission allows you to submit individual URLs to Baidu for quick indexing. - © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 13 - http://zhanzhang.baidu.com/linksubmit/url Domain Transfer Domain Transfer • Site Configuration section provides Domain Transfer tool which allows you to accelerate the indexing of your new site when you transfer your old site to a new domain: - Set up 301 redirects for your old content and ensure it redirects to your new content - Verify the new site in your account - Use this tool to notify Baidu about your new site © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 15 Website Analysis Links Analysis • Links Analysis can not only tell you the dead links on your site but also shows the number of links pointing to your site from other sites. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 17 Indexed Pages • This feature shows the number of pages indexed by Baidu. - Baidu does index English sites but it gives preference to Chinese sites and sites that are hosted on servers located in China - So, if your site is in English, it may take a longer time to be indexed by Baidu based on the popularity of your site © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 18 Search Keywords • These are the keywords used for which your site was shown in the search results. Basically, keywords, impressions and click-through rates as well as average ranking. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 19 Optimization Tips • Baidu has a page optimization tool: - You can submit important URLs from your site and receive tips on how to correct any errors, if found © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 20 Crawling • Similar to Google, Baidu also shows the Crawl Errors or Exceptions and these could be 404s or other server errors. • You can also set the crawl rate for the Baidu crawler. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 21 Robots.txt • You can not only check to see if your site has an existing Robots.txt file but you can also generate one for your site. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 22 Security Detection • Baidu has a security detection tool which can check your site for Malware for free. • In fact, Baidu search results shows your website with a message that “This site may be a security risk” if affected by Malware so you can later check the tool for details. • Baidu also has a tool to check your site for vulnerabilities like Page Source code leak, SQL injection, etc. so you can take appropriate actions. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 23 Baidu Analytics • Baidu also provides a free website analytics tool called Baidu Statistics to measure: - Site Traffic - Conversions • A number of reports can be generated from this tool, for example: - Trend Analysis - Source Analysis - Visitor Analysis © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 24 Structured Data • Baidu has their own version of Schema.org supporting Structured Data: - http://zhanzhang.baidu.com/schema/index • They only support Q&A, online documents like PDFs, Software and Document downloads. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 25 Mobile Mobile Crawler • Baidu has a Mobile crawler and it may take several months for them to crawl your mobile site and to start displaying it in Mobile search. • Ensure you use their Mobile Adaptation feature to submit your mobile site that corresponds to your desktop page. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 27 Site App • Baidu also has a free mobile app creator. Webmasters can create a free mobile site and they can sync it with their desktop site. • Baidu app store is free and easy to use. However, they do closed testing and apps require to be whitelisted before being featured. © COPYRIGHT 2015, ICROSSING, INC. 28 Thank You
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