How to add your website to Baidu Webmaster Tools
Baidu is a Chinese-only search engine with a big share of the market. To add your website to Baidu, you need a Baidu account. You can register the account with a phone number. While it is easy to do that if you have a Chinese phone number, it may be slightly more complicated with an international one. Please read this information about registering your site with Baidu before proceeding.
How to connect your website to Baidu Webmaster Tools with Yoast SEO
Yoast SEO allows you to connect your website to Baidu Webmaster Tools so you can track how Baidu is indexing your website. Baidu recommends adding the primary (typically www.example.com) subdomain first. This will make it easier to add other subdomains (like sub.example.com) later.
- Go to Baidu Webmaster Tools
- Sign in with your Baidu account
- Enter your URL and whether your site is an HTTP or HTTPS site
- Click 下一步 to continue
- Choose your website’s industry categories
- Under the HTML tag option HTML标签验证, copy the HTML code
- In your WordPress Dashboard, go to the Yoast SEO Settings
- Open the Site connections
- Under Baidu Webmaster Tools, copy the verification code
- Click Save changes
- Return to Baidu
- Click 完成验证 to complete the verification
Congratulations! You’ve connected your website to Baidu Webmaster Tools!
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