Baiduspider
Indexes for Baidu, the leading search engine in China.
| robots.txt token | Baiduspider |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes |
| Verification | Reverse DNS resolves to *.crawl.baidu.com |
| Our recommendation | Allow — Blocking it costs you Chinese search visibility — if that market is irrelevant to you, it's still cheap to allow. |
Block Baiduspider with robots.txt
User-agent: Baiduspider
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be Baiduspider from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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