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Baidu to Launch Ice Bucket 5.0 Algorithm for Mobile Landing Pages

Baidu announced yesterday that it will launch an upgrade of Ice Bucket Algorithm in late November, which is called Ice Bucket 5.0, focusing on issues of “webpage ads, app invoking and “full text” feature in Baidu app”.

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Baidu Recognizes A List of “Original-Content” Websites Filled with Duplicate Content

Baidu released a ranking list of 30 websites with “original content” on November 5th, in order to encourage website owners to create original content instead of copying articles from other sites, and to use its new star product – Bear Paw Account, which is supposed to help original content get proper rankings on Baidu. However, […]

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From Websites to Accounts: Has Baidu Deviated from Its Path as a Search Engine

Baidu’s General Manager of “Search Ecology Business” Xie Tian said on Baidu Union Summit held in May: “A new era of Baidu search has come, which sees transformation from websites to accounts, and this is a dimension upgrade.” Similar voices are repeated in promotions of Baidu’s Bear Paw Account. “The reason why Baidu put so […]

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Why SEO Clients Could be Easily Cheated by Chinese SEO Agencies

When I did SEO tasks for overseas clients/PMs, I found it very easy to not tell the truth to the clients or simply cheat them, and meanwhile offer them a perfect-looking sheet with useless or even harmful keywords the clients would never be aware of – I just never do it that way. And this […]

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Baidu Announces Breeze 3.0 Algorithm Update against Chinese Download Sites

Baidu announced yesterday that it’s going to release Breeze 3.0 algorithm update in late October, to “promote download user experience and boost positive development of download industry ecology”.

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Why it’s Necessary to Submit Your URLs to Baidu and How to Do it

It’s known that Baidu doesn’t do a good job in indexing new pages – especially from a new website, or in confirming whether an article is original or plagiarism. I have a personal Chinese blog on translation, I wrote all the articles by myself for it in the past 6 years, but they still needs […]

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Baidu Says Bear Paw Account Marks the Spring of Whitehat SEO, But…

Although Baidu continues to claim that more and more of its mobile search results in China are coming from Bear Paw accounts, many webmasters are still confused with this “domain of the mobile era”. Many of the Chinese webmasters are attracted by Baidu’s great efforts in promoting Bear Paw accounts and are trying to get […]

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Baidu to Release Hurricane 2.0 against Duplicate Content

Baidu announced yesterday that it’s going to release an update to its Hurricane algorithm, which is designed to tackle websites filled with maliciously acquired content. This algorithm update which is called Hurricane 2.0 will be released late September and will aim at four kinds of content acquiring sites:

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Baidu Launches Drizzle Algorithm against Title Cheating

Baidu announced its new “Drizzle Algorithm” (Xiyu, 细雨算法) recently, which has been launched in the middle of July. Drizzle is used to tackle “title cheating” including fake official websites and keyword stuffing in page titles, as well as frequent embedding of contact information in body texts. This is another algorithm update against “keyword stuffing” in […]

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Chinese SEO Expert: Most Domestic SEO Agencies Would Collapse if Google is Dominant Here

The possible return of Google to China has become a hot topic among domestic SEOs, and many of them are very optimistic about the news, but famous Chinese SEO expert Zac warned them of the opposite situation today.