Want To Be Found By Bing?
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If you want to be found by Bing, then you’re going to have to think differently about search. Bing is making it easier to compete for broad search terms because of the way the categories ‘rise’ to the surface automatically. This feature actually increases the number of results on the search page and it generates more relevant content. Basically, the same SEO strategies that are used for Google and Yahoo are applicable to Bing.
Here are some tips…
- Nail the basics. As always unique content is king. Use ‘H’ tags for titles, alt tags for images, use unique page titles and descriptive meta tags. Its very important that your content is free of spelling and grammatical errors. Again, master the basics first for success with Bing.
- Because Bing categorizes sites and its content, it also emphasizes the links or backlinks that a similar to the topic being searched. Quality, relevant links will go a long way in getting high search rankings on Bing. For example, if you are searching for ‘cars’ then model types like Ford, Lincoln and Honda would show up beneath the top level searched for term ‘cars.’ I believe the thinking her is that a site should be all about the same topic in order to rank well.
- Bing also prefers older domain ages. This site probably won’t rank high because the domain is less than one year old; and Bing establishes authority like Google does by identifying the domain age.
These are just some of the off the cuff, noticeable things I discovered in taking a look at Bing. There is still no substitute for developing great, original content directed toward your intended audience. All the things you currently do to be found by the search engines, continue doing them. Bing is just another player in the search engine game and SEO strategy won’t change for any search engine.
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If you want to be found by Bing, then you’re going to have to think differently about search….
Very interesting. Slightly different to Google. I think adopting these practices over and above your normal SEO for google can only help your rankings in both SE’s
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Yeah I do too Robert. Bing IMO helps you to do the drill down portion of keywords. This is very helpful.
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Hey Teasa, Love your blog and the theme very clean and easy navigating site. With that said I thought your post about “want to be found by bing” was a very informative article and helpful at a time when every blogger/website owner are always looking for the best keywords to get the SE’s to find our blogs/website. Thanks for the info. and love your blog along with the other posts of yours that I have read. I’ll be back for sure. thanks jj
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Thank you JJ!! Please come back, I owe all my success to friends like you. Take care.
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I’ve noticed Bing likes my site more than Google does, with internal pages also ranking on the first page along with the main site! My thinking was that Bing pays less attention to the age of a site and more to the categories?
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@John: Yep, you’re right. Bing is more category oriented, so if your site has the perfect inverted pyramid of categories, Bing will marry you! thanks for the comment.
I’ve just about given up with Bing. They’re pretty slow to index websites. Especially new ones. So I guess I’m not going to worry too much about bing until my site is at least a year old or something. But yeah, generally bing is supposed to be like google.
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This is interesting & quite similar to Google. Do you know of a resource that shows the differences?
By the way, I just found you today through BlogEngage, and I am glad I did. Your site looks great.
Have a great day!
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No Mark, I don’t know of a resource that shows the differences, but of course you could always Google it! Take care, thanks for BlogEngage, huh?!