SURPRISING results with Bing!

Hi folks,

So I have an interesting story to share with some really surprising results.

Basically I've launched a new site a month ago, submitted it to all three major search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing) and worked on regular links development and writing content.

Until today Bing did not show my site in results (literally a month since it first found it) - despite showing me that I have incoming links to the site. By now I already got cached by both Google and Yahoo.

And today as I did my daily sweep of SERPs on all the search engines I finally found myself in Bing...

And here's the surprising part: I am ranked MUCH higher in Bing than in Google. For a VERY popular keyword too (sorry, but I'm not telling what it is).

Bing: for "exact match" on a two-word search phrase with 1-10 of 248,000,000 total results I am ranked #8. For the same keyword without exact match (no "" quotes) I am ranked #16.
Google: meantime on Google I'm ranked #18 for "exact match" and #62 without quotes.


Sooo.... I am pretty baffled with this. It took Bing so long to show my site in results, and then it gives such high SERPs to a brand new site (and somewhere I've read that age is a big factor for Bing...).

At any rate, I am quite happy with this, especially since my keyword is from the financial industry... now I just hope more people would use Bing instead of Google

Did anyone else have a similar experience with Bing?

 

For most of my sites, I seem to rank a lot higher on Bing than on Google. Problem is, Bing brings much, much much less traffic than Google so despite having a much higher position on Bing, Google still sends the most traffic.

I therefore consider my high rankings on Bing pointless

 

They have very simular algorytm as google, all my sites are the same ranking as on google, but google brings my more visits

But this is smart move for bing, I also hope yahoo will do something about searching sport sites..

 

bing has a lot less searches then google..so it's not so important

 

Yes, I've noticed the same thing with Bing. On a couple newer sites I wasn't on the first page of Google so ALL my organic traffic was coming from Bing for a while.

 

Excellent point - on my established sites Bing drives less than 10% of search visitors.

However, since Microsoft is very serious about Bing... well, I really wouldn't mind them overtaking Google in search marketshare -- as long as they do not change their algorythms

Well, for me it's important as a learning experience... At the moment I am trying to dissect my site SEO wise (incoming links, Google PR/Bing importance of incoming links, anchor texts in incoming links, meta tags I used, text heavyness/density, <H>, bold and italic use, and so forth) in the hopes that it will give me an idea as to what which engine likes... since as one of the posters accurately stated, most of the time the results in Google and Bing are quite comparable.

Thank you for sharing. This was basically my first experience with Bing when it comes to launching a brand new site (all my older sites were launched when MSN Live! was still around) so I am still trying to make sense of it.

 

iphone canada ? but I don't see a lot of volume for it mate.

 

iphone canada is a popular keyword, but not VERY popular. VERY popular two-words keywords are like online bank.

 

Yes, it's much easier to rank in Bing than in Google. However the traffic is nowhere similar.
I rather prefer to be number 5-6 in Google than number 1 in Bing or Yahoo

 

This is so true. I think everyone can relate. I have sites that do rank #1 for Yahoo and Bing but bring no traffic what so ever.

 

iphone canada is a popular keyword? nope.

that and it's a trademarked term.

1 -2 = -1

 

getting traffic from bing is good - they do a lot of marketing, so that could drive more searches

 

I have used MSN PPC campaings and the volume just sucks..Seems like they really do not get an abundance of search..

 

I am very disappoint at BING , the SERPs finally drop to last page in 2 out of 3 of my blogs.

 

My sites are also ranked higher with Bing then Google, but the traffic coming from Google out weights Bing by more then 50%. It's pretty weird because the same KW that 1st place in Bing and close to last place of the first page results on Google. Yet Google still produce more traffic for me.

 

Bing has been inconsistent for me. They usually index my new sites first and I get a lot of traffic from them but after a few months back to none.

 

I agree with gonecrazy. Thats what they do with me to.

 

Have to agree with gonecrazy, site is page 1, then gone, no where to be found

 

google > yahoo > Bing

surprisingly, i got quite a big difference with the pages indexed by google and by Bing...hmmmm...
Did i used the wrong method to check pages indexed by search engine?
Can anyone show me how to do this?

 

Yeah I am really disapointed with Bing..Cant figure out what happens to SERP..