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Wasting millions on Baidu PPC instead of using a right keyword

When I started to work as a SEO for China Mobile’s official website for mobile games, I was surprised to find that China Mobile was paying big money for its brand name “China Mobile” to Baidu Pay-per-click (Baidu PPC), or “Baidu Ads” as some people call it.

The same ridiculous thing is happening to many overseas enterprises establishing businesses in China. They are paying big bucks to Baidu PPC for rankings of their brand names or their major products/services, and they don’t bother to even add one correct keyword to their website.

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How is a Baidu PPC Advertising CPC Calculated?

The figure of Cost Per Click (CPC) for Baidu PPC Advertising depends on rankings, bids and quality scores of you and your competitors, and your CPCs wouldn’t exceed the bids you set for your keywords in Baidu Marketing tool for PPC (Baidu Tuiguang).

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How to Track and Analyze Your Data from Baidu PPC tool?

We’ve mentioned that local tools for SEO and other marketing approaches are very important for tracking performance of your website for Chinese audience.

And today we’re introducing some detailed means of tracking your data on Baidu Marketing, a PPC tool from Baidu.

Daily monitoring should be performed once you have Baidu Marketing campaigns launched, data including purchases, clicks and bounce rates should be included in monitoring. And the more detailed your analysis is, the more thorough factors affecting search results you would concluded. Data analysis is often neglected by novices, and also the toughest part. Many marketers would only pay attention to changes of keyword bids and visit numbers, but rarely think about factors behind such changes.

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Does Baidu PPC affect organic SEO rankings?

Baidu has changed the name of its “ranking auctions” (Baidu’s “Pay Per Click” business similar to Google AdWords) to “Baidu Marketing”, to avoid disputes on legitimacy of its PPC scenarios.

And as for questions about if Baidu PPC affects a website’s organic search traffic, Baidu’s official answer is no.