I was reading this article about optimizing my site for Baidu which says that while Baidu searches and indexes .com
and .net
TLDs, it favors .cn
domains and ranks them higher compared to the others.
Reading this, I wanted to know if it is better to have a .中国
domain or go with .cn
TLD?
Does anybody have any experience in Chinese domains who can give some insight into this?
.com
domain, in which case I would assume that the Chinese users that participated in the survey might have been users of websites in English language. I don't see a tool for Baidu that's similar to Google Trends, but I would lean towards Chinese users searching in their own language and hence.中国
domains having preference over.cn
(more Chinese keywords that can fit into that TLD perhaps)..cn
domain. I guess Alexa does not rank sites with character sets other than Latin, so there were no sites with a.中国
TLD.