Check Baidu rankings and ads from mainland China
Baidu is the search engine most people in mainland China use, and a Hong Kong or Taiwan IP is a different market. To see a Baidu results page as a searcher in a mainland city, send the query from a Chinese IP in that city and keep the IP for the whole check:
- Pick the city. Put it in the username:
<login>-country-cn-city-<city>, the name in lowercase with underscores for spaces. Named cities: the full list is in your dashboard. - Hold one IP for the query. Add a sticky session,
-session-<id>-ttl-<seconds>, so the results page and the pages after it come from one IP. Sessions last 30 s to 36 h (ttl30–129,600), 20 min by default; an IP idle for 120 s gets a new IP. - Ask in Chinese. Send
Accept-Language: zh-CNand a normal browser user agent, and URL-encode the keyword. - Run the query:
curl -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 \
-U "<login>-country-cn-city-<city>-session-baidu01-ttl-1800:<password>" \
-H "Accept-Language: zh-CN,zh;q=0.9" \
"https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%E8%BF%90%E5%8A%A8%E9%9E%8B"- Record what you see: your page's rank, the ads (Baidu marks them 广告), the city, the IP and the time.
- Repeat from a second city, and from a mobile IP for the phone results, then compare.
The proxy changes where the query comes from; what Baidu shows is Baidu's decision, and personalisation, time and device still vary. If Baidu shows a security check, slow down or let a person complete it: ProxyField does not solve CAPTCHAs. Before you run checks at volume, test your city with the proxy checker (up to 100 proxies per check; your list and results are not stored). More on rank tracking: SEO proxies.