Hi Niners72,

I agree with Mark. But I would also try to ensure that you are providing a relevant yet unique title tag for each of  your pages where possible (you can focus on the ones that are top level then work through as when you have the time-if you have a large site) as these can help to improve Click Through Rate also as well as the description (which needs to be within the 156 limit).

Thanks for that I have just looked that up-I didn't realise that this was such a common problem.

Hi Stefan,

You can block the Baidu crawler in in the robots.txt.

There should be no adverse affect to your site. As this is not an area you are targeting and has no future long term benerfit to your business. Blocking the crawler will mean that your server has less load to deal with from the unnecessary traffic you have been receiving.

You can block the spiders in the following ways:

1. Robots.txt (below is code for Baidu)

User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

2. Blocking Spiders via the Apache Configuration File httpd.conf

See the below article for more details on this method

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites

You may also want to check out:

http://www.robotstxt.org/

I hope this helps,

Ally

Hi Niners72,

I agree with Mark. But I would also try to ensure that you are providing a relevant yet unique title tag for each of  your pages where possible (you can focus on the ones that are top level then work through as when you have the time-if you have a large site) as these can help to improve Click Through Rate also as well as the description (which needs to be within the 156 limit).

Hi Stefan,

You can block the Baidu crawler in in the robots.txt.

There should be no adverse affect to your site. As this is not an area you are targeting and has no future long term benerfit to your business. Blocking the crawler will mean that your server has less load to deal with from the unnecessary traffic you have been receiving.

You can block the spiders in the following ways:

1. Robots.txt (below is code for Baidu)

User-agent: Baiduspider
User-agent: Baiduspider-video
User-agent: Baiduspider-image
Disallow: /

2. Blocking Spiders via the Apache Configuration File httpd.conf

See the below article for more details on this method

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067357/Bye-bye-Crawler-Blocking-the-Parasites

You may also want to check out:

http://www.robotstxt.org/

I hope this helps,

Ally