Hello DP .. Bing launched today .. and I can say that it will be for sure a great and well used search engine (many good features) So any articles ? tips about optimising the site for Live.com ?? thanks .
You might want to wait till the experts dissect the search algorithm and come out with optimization tips
I said , how to optimize for live , why ? Check out your previous placement in live serach for specific keywords .. Bing is not really different .. So I thought if a site is well optimized for live.com , so it will be in the good way for a start. Toon
Ive done loads of searches on Google, Bing and Yahoo! and whilst Google and Yahoo! have roughly 60% of similar results on the first page, the Bing results are about 20% similar. Also, it has ranked one of my sites (which has very few internal links and has just on page optimisation) on the first page for a term which when I type in to Google or Yahoo! its not in the first 50 results. I'm looking forward to articles on the Bing algo because so far it seems totally different from existing engines.
yes bing focuses more on ON PAGE optimisation, that means, more keywords in arcticles and things like that...
I wouldn't do anything special. The results seem closer to Google so I would suggest doing what you do for Google. Creating useful content that people are interested in seems to help.
I think the results are actually more like Yahoo. Bing and Yahoo give more weight for ONpage meta data: titles/description/tags headers versus Google which uses the ONpage SEO to verify the offpage anchor text. It sounds similar but it is vastly different. With google you can find a website that isn't perfectly optimized for a phrase because the masses have deemed it worthy and relevant (through their anchor text). Bing and Yahoo do not trust people voting (linking) and rely more on ONpage SEO...so if you want to rank well in their SE's you will want to focus heavily on Onpage SEO and borderline keyword stuff your meta data...then again you must realize Google is 95% of SE traffic so optimize for the king.
Hey guys - Aaron from the Bing Outreach Team here (formerly Live Search Outreach Team)... Over at the Bing Webmaster Blog they're working on a series of new blog posts that explains what the release of Bing means to webmasters and publishers, and should help answer questions you all are having here. They'll be rolling out soon. http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/06/01/new-webmaster-community-in-bing.aspx Hope this helps! Aaron Bing Outreach Team
Thank you for answering. The community looks great .. Forums are do follow or I'm drunk ? PS : looks nice http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...+your+site+for+Bing&btnG=Search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=
i went over and checked out bing and it works pretty well with results from my resort town area, with a few glitches. and the side window that comes out with the info from the page itself is kewl i may be going over there more often, some of the results were remarkably like google's for some searches, well it is a small resort town and not that many major websites out there, plus now these days there are all those national authority sites taking up more space instead of it being local websites about the area, like student-traveler, fodors, tripadvisor, weather.com and wikipedia etc etc
I've just checked it out and I'm quite impressed with the results. They seem fairly similar to Google, but with some of the spammy sites removed.
Bing and yahoo are becoming more and more like google. Started to receive visitors for the same keywords I get from Gooogle.
Yea I thought so too. I'm ranked on the first page on Bing for one of my sites... and on google the 2nd page. Site not even a month old so I know I will have to wait a little for google to come around.