Baidu SEO Case Study: 5X Organic Traffic Increase within 7 Months for a B2B China Website

Stephen Tseng

Overview

  1. International B2B manufacturing company.
  2. Built up a whole new website in China.
  3. SEO for Baidu search engine
  4. It took 7 months to see the results.

SEO audit report

We audited the website and issued an SEO audit report. In addition, we provided the solutions to fix the issues.

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Keyword research

According to the industry and website content, we finished the keyword research to identify SEO keywords.

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Navigation Bar Optimization

Make sure the menu bar has the right keywords.

  • Before SEO
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  • After SEO

Sitemap Optimization

There is no sitemap page before SEO. So we developed a new sitemap page to improve SEO.

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Optimize 404 page

We added keywords and put links on the 404 page to improve SEO.

  • Before SEO
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  • After SEO
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Optimize on-page SEO

We added internal links to the website pages, according to the keyword research.

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Off-site SEO

  1. We added company information and links to yellow page websites.
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2. We added a link to the third-party company recruiting websites

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Results

The website went live in December 2017 with a new domain and content.

Compared to the first-month organic traffic, the eighth-month traffic increased by 500%.

The only traffic-down month was February, due to Chinese New Year.

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About The Author

Dan Hu

Stephen Tseng

Co-founder of dminrostudio

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