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Your full-service China SEO agency

Build your search visibility in China on Baidu, Sogou, Deepseek, Kimi, Doubao, and ERNIE bot (Baidu AI).

Everything you need to be found on China’s search and answer engines

Ranking in China is a different game. Different engines, a different digital ecosystem, different ranking or citation criteria, and a fast-changing landscape that requires expertise to stay relevant.

Get the foundations right

We’ll help with the technical groundwork and ongoing optimisation so you're visible immediately and stay visible long term.

Understand your rankings

We make sure you understand how your site ranks across Chinese search and AI engines and how you're performing for the keywords that matter for your business.

Rank, and stay ranked

We can own your content creation end-to-end with Chinese language content creation, localisation and clear, regular reporting on what's working and what's next.

Show up in AI search

We structure your pages for both traditional SEO and AEO, so you surface in AI generated answers as well as the SERP.

Reporting in real-time

No chasing your agency for a quarterly performance report. You get real-time performance dashboards for your assets and search performance.

Move faster with paid SEM

When organic alone isn't quick enough, our SEM service gets you in front of the right audience sooner to accelerate your results.

Baidu search results for Maple Hill University, with its official Chinese website ranked first

Our approach

Stage 01

Audit your presence and content

A deep dive into your online presence to identify gaps and opportunities for your brand's Search and AI visibility.

Stage 02

Optimisation & content recommendations

We'll take the insights from our audit and provide you with a detailed plan for what you need to do to boost your visibility and rank and a detailed content roadmap for how to make that happen.

Stage 03

Execution

We'll work with you to deliver on the roadmap including technical build and optimisation of your Chinese digital assets and Chinese language copyrighting.

Built for sectors that rely on being found in China

Education

Ensure you’re found by Chinese families the moment they start researching their options.

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Maple Hill University’s Chinese website on a laptop and a phone

Health & Biotech

Stand out from the crowd in an industry where trust and credibility are everything.

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A biotech company’s Chinese website on a laptop and a phone

B2B

Generate qualified leads with decision-makers researching suppliers and partners in China.

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A B2B manufacturer’s Chinese product website on a laptop and a phone

Tourism

Capture demand from Chinese travellers planning and booking their next trip.

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A Chinese travel website promoting Bondi Beach on a laptop and a phone

Building search visibility in China

Students sitting and talking on indoor steps

It makes it so much easier and efficient to update the website and to keep building our domain authority with Chinese search engines.

Gitte Bindzus Foldager, International Communications and Student Recruitment Manager Aarhus University

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Pedestrians walking past skyscrapers in a busy city

Launching our new China website was just the first step. Now we're working closely with the Sinorbis team to boost Moelis' SEO on one of China's largest search engines.

Jack Chen, Analyst Moelis Australia

Ready to be found in China?

Talk to our team about building your search visibility on Baidu, Sogou and beyond.

Frequently asked questions

Which search engines matter in China?

Google has almost no presence in mainland China. Your audience searches on Baidu, China’s most popular search engine, plus Sogou, Shenma and 360 (Haosou). Increasingly, they also turn to AI tools like Deepseek and Baidu's ERNIE for answers, which is why optimising for AI answer engines (AEO) now matters as much as ranking on the traditional SERP.

How is Baidu SEO different from Google SEO?

Baidu uses its own algorithm and ranking signals. It strongly favours sites that are hosted in China and hold an ICP filing or licence, prioritises Simplified Chinese content, places more weight on meta keywords and inbound links, and handles mobile and page structure differently to Google. A strategy built for Google won't transfer, it needs to be designed for the Chinese search landscape from the ground up.

Do I need an ICP licence to rank in China?

It helps, but it's not a dealbreaker. An ICP filing or licence lets you legally host your site on the mainland, so it loads faster and is more easily indexed by Chinese search engines. If you don’t have an ICP licence, you can still rank. The Sinorbis DXP is built so your site is optimised to load quickly and stays indexable on search engines inside China without one, giving you a discoverable, high-performing presence on Chinese search engines either way.


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