With over 1.3 billion people, China has the world’s largest population and according to a Forbes report, China surpasses US in internet use. Reaching over 162 million internet users as of June 2007, China has the world’s second largest internet population. A statistics that can’t be ignored by online entrepreneurs. Given the enormous number of internet users, it is therefore not surprising to find out that Baidu.com, China’s most popular search engine, is ranked as the 5th most popular website in the world. The fact is, there are more people who are using Baidu, than Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask to search the internet. Hence, appearing from Baidu’s search result is a great potential source of traffic to your blog. Today’s post answers why and how you should submit your blog at Baidu.com.
Why Should You Submit Your Blog To Baidu.com?
Probably, you don’t care submiting to Baidu for several reasons. Firstly, Baidu.com is a Chinese search engine and most Chinese don’t understand English. Since your blog is written in English, it will be of no use to them. Secondly, your target readers are from a certain geographic location (e.g. United States of America, United Kingdom). And lastly, you don’t understand Chinese so probably you won’t understand the submission procedures of Baidu.
Since China has embraced globalization, it has welcomed foreign languages especially English. As China prepares to host the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the Chinese government launched a massive campaign to teach English to its citizens. Assuming that the trend of studying English continues in China, China will soon be the largest English speaking country in the world.
Regarding targeting specific geographic location, I don’t see any reason why you should deprive your blog of traffic from other countries especially from regions where the Alexa toolbar is widely used. Submitting your blog to Baidu.com will take you less than 1 minute. Simply enter your blog’s URL and a enter the verification code and you’re done. That’s how easy it is.
Simple Steps In Submitting Your Blog To Baidu.com
- CLICK HERE to submit your blog/website.
- Enter your blog’s URL just like it’s shown in the picture. Enter the verfication code and hit the gray button.
- You should see this message confirming that you’ve submitted your blog’s URL successfully.
Now that you’re done, you will have to wait for Baidu’s crawler to visit and index your blog or you can submit your blog to other search engines.
UPDATE JAN. 16, 2008: I just want to let everyone know that the link to Baidu is up and working. Submit your blog now! Happy blogging. 
Update Jan. 10, 2008: The link to Baidu’s submission page has been transferred. Sorry for the inconvenience. I’ll find out the new submission link and have the link updated soon.
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“China will soon be the largest English speaking country in the world.” — Surely you mean “the country with the largest number of people who can speak English.” There’s a difference.
Thanks for the screen shots.
Have you considered opening your blog’s comments to bloggers with other logins? That would be helpful now that the URL field is gone. You can open things up by using the dashboard on Blogger in Draft.
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Great post! I have good friends in China, thanks for opening my eyes. Looking forward to see you visiting my blog at http://www.searchforblogging.com
I submitted my blog to Baidu.com
Cheers,
Mert Erkal
Thanks for the information.I have since submitted my blog to baidu.
Clement Nyirenda’s blog world
Thanks for sharing this!
Our writer in China insisted we did this way back and looks like he was right!
Time we got flowers on the China map – we deliver flowers there so why not!
Great idea, I submitted all of my network’s blogs.
On my DVD video site, I get traffic from SERPs in every kind of language. The users are searching in English but the SE is, say, in Arabic.
Keep up the good work …
Thank you for tip. I am not sure, how much traffic I can get from China on my English and Russian blogs, but submission was fast and easy. We visited China this year, and English speaking people were extremely rare out of the beaten track.
Super thanks, I submitted my blogs. One question, how do I handle comments that might be made in Chinese? Should I write you for advice?
(Smile)
This was very exciting.
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Thank you for the helpful tip. I submitted my blog and my website containing my winning humorous speech contest entries from the Toastmasters District 46 Fall conference. You can see both of my winning speechs from last year and this year by following this link:
http://www.kevinthompsononline.com/Kevin_Thompson_Online_-_Con.html
I hope that you enjoy the videos.
Thanks for the guidelines.
Yes I will definitely submit my site to baidu.
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Great to get useful information from a informative blog such as yours, particularly the social and chinese submission sites…
i knew that baidu.com is china’s largest search engine but didn’t have any idea how to submit my blog in it.
Now i know this because of this post.
Thanks a lot.
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That is a good idea about submitting sites to all countries. I was wondering do they eat dogs in China?
Thanks for sharing. We submitted our web site http://www.TurkishExPortal.com to Baidu as well.
Regards,
TurkishExPortal Team
Thanks have submitted my site
http://hdtvreviews.org.uk/
Has anyone seen any increased traffic because of this?
I’ve just submitted my blog to Baidu. Thanks for this tip
Hi everyone,
Have you checked whether you’ve been indexed at Baidu.com cause Blogging Mix has already been indexed. I’ve also started to receive traffic from Baidu.
I have submitted http://ezrichproject.blogspot.com to Baidu.com
Thanks for the tips.
This is interesting considering the potential of China. What do you say about the following site which I had seen?
If you wish to win more traffic to your site / blog, there is a site called http://www.whoistopofthelist.com, which lets you do that free. You can also write about your site, post and link, as well as a photo.
Yes, useful information, I really admire Chine and I hope I get lots of readers from there he he.
@ Ted,
I’ve registered Blogging Mix 3 weeks ago and I’ve already started receiving traffic from Baidu.
Good luck and happy blogging!
Great tip, thanks. Will be interesting to see how much traffic I get in the coming weeks.
My company has three plants in China and I can attest to the efforts to teach English over there. While I’m not sure I would share my site with my co-workers overseas directly, I did take the time to submit http://www.thepsychoexwife.com with your assistance. Much Appreciated.
LM
I’ve never heard of this site. I’ll have to check it out and submit my URL. Thanks for the recommendation! Keep up the good work.
I’ve just submitted my blog http://healthforlifestyle.blogspot.com/ to Baidu. Thanks for this tipS.
Great tip! I’m sure there’s a market there despite the language barrier. I submitted all my sites. Thank you.
MISSING LINK.I clicks to your link to submit my link but baidu cannot find it.I translate it using Google
I am sorry that your visit to the page does not exist.
1. Check the web site you entered is correct.
2 If you can be sure you entered the Web site, please visit Baidu more pages to view your visit to the web site.
3. Direct input to visit the contents of a search:
If still in doubt please visit Baidu Help access solutions, it can also Baidu to leave your comments or suggestions.
@ Lankapo,
Yes, I checked the link today and it is directing to the wrong page. Thanks for the heads up. I’ll find the new link soon and have it posted here.
@ Rosie,
Don’t worry, I’m sure you’ll get comments in English.;)
I have submitted my blog http://ceospeaks.mrkconsultancy.com to baidu.com thanks for the link.
Guess what? I felt sorry when I first read this post coz it said that baidu is temporary not available, but still I bookmarked this page hoping for an update. I was just so lucky to view it again today. Thanks for being sincere and keeping your promise to your readers. I will submit my URL to baidu and add your site to my favorites from now on and of course constantly visiting you.
However, just 2 questions, how can I see my traffic from baidu? Will it be chinese version? I think this is an odd question though…thanks again!
Since Your link doesnt work anymore here is my way of signing to baidum.com + some other rare countries engines:
glowicki.pl/01/15/add-url-submit-site-to-search-engines-free/
@ Glowicki,
I guess you missed the part where I said the Link is up and running again. Go check for yourself.
Thanks – will submit by blog today (http://www.desicrazy.com)
I have been visiting china last year, most of them seems don’t want to use english at all compare to my country, hope that china will sosialize english better in the future.
Thank you for a great post and I have favored your blog on entrecard as well. Have submitted all my sites, as I have widgets that convert english into another language.
Sounds good.
Didn’t think about Baudi, but I will definitely have a look here.
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Thanks for this nice tip. Lets hope chinese guys can translate our english content.
Thanks for this great tips. I gave my second thumbs up in Stumble for pages of this site, on the first visit! Many more articles to go through. Thanks again and godspeed!
Thanks for the great tip.
I hope I am doing this right to submit a comment for blog. Anyway… “Happy Chinese New Year” from llchuk
i was interested in submitting my page in the above mentioned place but the language caused all the problems. Had it been in english, i would have surely added my pages.
I’ve just submitted my blog http://hexacool.blogspot.com to Baidu! Thanks for the tips!
Thanks! Great! I’m very grateful to the word “SHARING”. Through this word you have spread the good news to bloggers. I’ve submitted mine too. This is my site Pinoy Barking Hall
Very much useful and helpful for my sites … Thanx a lot frd…
and the link provided by “Glowicki ProBLogger ” is also good one to submit our sites into diff search engines …
Thanks for this resource. While it may not pay off in the short term, it is definitely a great idea for possible long term benefits.
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@ Link Building Bible,
I see traffic from Baidu about two weeks after I submitted my blog. You should get some hits from Baidu after you submit your blog and it gets indexed.