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Q&A on Baiduspider and broken links

Chinese webmasters are paying more and more attention to broken links or dead links, because such links are directly related to indexing and traffic conversion of websites. And here are official replies from Baidu to some questions about broken links.

Q: Is robots shielding effective for preventing Baidu from crawling broken links?

A: Of course, Baidu strictly follows robots protocol. If you find Baidu fetches broken links regardless of robots file, you should confirm that it is Baiduspider, if yes, you can make a complaint at the feedback center.

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Why Baidu isn’t indexing your site: Spider Fetching

At present, Baidu Spider fetches new URLs by two ways: one is to take the initiative, find them and fetch them; the other is to get data from “link submission” tool in Baidu Webmaster. But Baidu Spider prefers the data submitted via the tool. Therefore, if links on your site aren’t indexed by Baidu in a long period, you can try to use the submission tool. This is especially recommended for new websites, if you submit data of your index page, the inside pages will also be crawled more easily.

However, some new sites aren’t displayed on Baidu for a long time after submitting its data, what’s the reason for this? It might be relevant to multiple factors. As for the segment of spider fetching, such factors include:

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Baidu SEO: two steps to identify Baiduspider Bot coming to your website

A lot of questions are being asked by Chinese webmasters who want to improve SEO performance on Baidu.

For example, What’s Baiduspider Bot? Why Baiduspider Bot comes so frequently these days? What can I do when Baiduspider Bot doesn’t come any more?

And many webmasters want to get the IP block of Baiduspider Bot so that they could add it to their white list. But the IP of Baiduspider Bot is not fixed, so Baidu cannot reveal it.

Then how to identify Baiduspider Bot correctly? Well, here are two steps for doing this.