Google Chrome Extension: Simulate Baidu Search Engine Spider Crawl Visits

Digital marketers often need to perform SEO analysis. When analyzing multiple e-commerce websites, they sometimes need to test whether the other party's backlinks are blocking search engine spiders.

We can use software tools to simulate the browsing of search engine spiders.

Chen Weiliang suggested using Google Chrome to simulate the visits of search engine spiders such as Baidu and Google.

This article uses Google Chrome browser as a tutorial.

Chrome extension: User-Agent Switcher for Chrome

Step 1: Download the Chrome extension

Extensions → Get more extensions → Search for " User-Agent Switcher for Chrome " → Click "+ Add to Chrome" ▼

Step 2: Refresh Google Chrome, and you'll notice the plugin is now loaded. ▼

Step 3: Access the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome "Options"

Right-click on the User-Agent Switcher for Chrome extension icon and select "Options", it will automatically enter the following options setting page▼

Step 4: Add search engine spider access identification code

Add Chrome to simulate search engine spider access identification, such as Baidu, Google ▼

Baidu ▼

Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Baiduspider/2.0;++http://www.baidu.com/search/spider.html)

Google ▼

Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+Googlebot/2.1;++http://www.google.com/bot.html)

Sogou ▼

Sogou+web+spider/4.0(+http://www.sogou.com/docs/help/webmasters.htm#07)

Bing ▼

Mozilla/5.0+(compatible;+bingbot/2.0;++http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)

Step 5: Select a search engine spider to visit the website ▼

• After the test visit, if it is displayed as usual, it means that the Baidu search engine spider can crawl the web page as usual.

If you can't access the Chrome extension download page on Google's official website, please see the following solutions ▼

🔗What to do if the Google official website page cannot be opened? How to solve the problem of Google search engine not opening