What about bing

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Hi,

Any ideas to be top in bing? I see that if google is making me crazy, bing is even more. I don´t know how to do it in bing or if it is worthy, because for the moment it seems that there is not so much traffic there.

Thanks.
#search engine optimization #bing
  • Same principals for Google apply to Bing.

    But in spite of Microsoft throwing money at bing by the billions... little has changed.
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    • Don't waste your time worrying about Bing.

      I have a site with a pretty popular keyword (90k/month), and it is ranked #7 on bing. I know it isn't #1 or #2, but I would expect to at least see a few clicks from it. I haven't seen one from Bing for weeks.
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  • I don know about Bing and it is a little bit strange. Once I used Bing to search sth and closed the website I wanted to browse by accident, then I searched the same keywords again but never find the website again.
  • Well, Bing is good, I do get traffic from them but I have no clue about how to rank in there. I just do. I'd say try getting traffic from Google instead, and to drive traffic from social media and sites.

    Kris Roxas
  • Bing is a mystery at the most. But the strategies on Google will not work is what I found from here. Many of my new born sites ranked high with Bing. But after a while I saw them drop. But traffic when I receive 300 from Google bing sends me 5. This show the effectiveness of Bing and Google.
    My advice is do not spend your efforts in Bing. Concentrate on Google.
  • First of all - don't worry about Bing. Even if you rank well, the traffic you'll get is a tiny proportion of what you'll get from Google.

    Secondly, I've had good rankings in Bing as a side effect of backlinks. It seems that Bing gives weight to some of the backlinks that Google isn't so keen on, like social bookmarks and profile links. Sometimes I'll drop a few bookmarks to get indexed quickly by Google, but then I appear in Bing SERPs for my anchor text - has anybody else seen this pattern?
  • i dont worry much about bing..but its one of the good SE's i know..
    if you do well in google..theres also a possibility that you'll get good positioning in bing
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    • Yes I would agree with this - it makes sense for bing to rank websites in a similar way to google as this is the de-facto standard. I do actually hope bing gets market share as I like the aesthetics of it.
  • just follow common guidling which you follow for google. work hard and promote your site on diffrent site by using linkbuilidng process. you sure get good result from them.
  • The user demographic for Bing is different to that of Google.

    Bing appears to favour linking from pages that share a similar topic area.

    Just Follow Guideline.
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    • Well, actually Bing is a new option. A different search engine to get different results, and why not, more. It is not convenient to affirm that it gives unwanted results, it just gives different results, but still related to the search field. And why is not convenient? cause the websites that are indexed on Bing would probably others than those which are indexed on Google. Is not about what's better...it's just another option, at least in terms of searches.
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    • +1.. You're on the right track grasshoppa.
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  • Bing is still a less sophisticated search engine than Google. That being said, your links are going to actually mean more in Bing due to this lack of sophistication. Literally, just focus on Google and Bing will follow. That's how it's played out for every one of my websites. I rank well in Google, and shortly after, I rank well in Bing. I don't know if they're copying the algorithm of what, but that's how it plays out for me. One should never seek to rank in Bing anyway.
  • bing sees links faster from my experience. A site of mine ranks 500 while it ranks 7 on bing. 3 months later, its number 15-20 on google and 2 on bing. a couple months later, they are both on the first page....google still brings the bulk of the traffic though..but the extra traffic doesnt hurt.

    Basically, its just like google, but its not gonna take as long.

    Keep building links, you will rank in bing in no time (of course this will still ultimately depend on your keyword)
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    • I have noticed this as well. Many of the sites I work with responded to backlink building by initially ranking well in Bing then Google shortly thereafter.
  • I did nothing special for bing, but then also my site was ranking good in that, for some keywords, even better than google. But the traffic i am getting from Bing is not even 1% compared to Google. So don't worry about Bing.
  • Bing gives some weird results. It's the nature of dealing with an AI.Unless Google catches up with a meaning based search technique - and FAST - they're screwed.
  • Unfortunately most SEO efforts involve only Google. There aren't so much knowledge about bing and yahoo because they hold only a small proportion of the total search volume.
  • I have to disagree with most peoples attitudes towards bing and other search engines.

    Yes, it's true that google (at this time) generates more traffic than the other search engines.

    However, that may not always be the case.

    Also, if someone were to successfully crack the bing code and could rank sites well, there is still a lot of money to be made.

    If I could rank on the first page of bing for dating... who cares what my rank is on google... I'm still going to get a lot of traffic and make a lot of money.

    Just something to think about.
  • I know one thing, if anybody wants to search for something online, the first thing that comes to their mind is google. So I wont be worrying so much about bing.
  • Bing, yahoo and MSN are still same, try to get traffic from Google. Thanks
  • Submit your site's XML sitemap to their webmaster tool: Webmaster Center - Bing
  • Bing really is an unknown at this time your better of getting to the top of google before you start on any other search engine!
  • All the big engines work in a similar way so you won't get any problem when ranking
  • Bing getting increase nowadays, and no wonder if could be google most competitor... I got quite good traffic from the and the concept is same with google itself..
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  • I really don't understand Bing in the way that they sort rankings. I will see very irrelevant listings appear outranking sites which are clearly more related.
  • I noticed a website appearing in Google, Bing, Yahoo and AOL' first page of search results with as much as ten targeted keywords. But still, you can see that Google, Yahoo and AOL behaves in a pretty similar ways but Bing is a little different - check out for your knowledge.
  • Forget Bing, What About Bob?

    Now that was a movie. Bill Murray is a great comedic actor, even with a ****e script.
  • Regarding not getting ranked on Bing, I just checked some of my sites in the Bing Webmaster Centre, and I noticed that they are listed with Region = "jp" (when it ought to be "us" - the region code "jp" seems to have been picked at random, as the sites have nothing to do with Japan at all, that I can think of).

    I then tried searching for my keyword phrases on bing.jp, and the sites are indeed listed on the first page there. So perhaps it could be something similar for those of you who are having problems getting ranked for your keywords?

    My sites are static html, and apparently the problem can be resolved if I add a meta tag for content language, which I haven't done yet.
  • I do get no 1 on a keyword but just get 1-2 clicks from that keyword from Bing. I rank 5 in google and get 5 traffic daily. So You can judge the importance of Bing
  • For one thing I have issues with Google and their slaps. I want to support Bing and do almost regardless as we need a viable alternative or two to Big G
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  • regardless of how you feel about bing.... yahoo is going to be history soon and will be replaced with a yahoo branded bing. might only be 10% of search traffic today but what about next year?

    microsoft clearly wants a bigger piece of the SE pie and I don't think they are going to rest until they get it.
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    • well here's hoping the die of exhausion

      but I'm not concerned at all, Bing returns crap results and that's why nobody uses it, until their algorithms become much more sophisticated people will stay with google

      my opinion remains, when I rank for terms like "free online games" and "online blackjack" in google it's a skill

      anyone that ranks in bing, it's a fluke not a skill, when you compare the backlinks from Bing results it really does look random

      When you search "blackjack strategy" in google i'm on page two with an inner page from my blackjack site

      On Bing i found a horse racing system before I found my blackjack strategy page

      WTF, i don't want a horse racing system i want a blackjack strategy, that's why I typed it in

      Bing is BS
  • easy way to get top index in bing is only collect the backlinks from sites who are maximum pages indexed in bing and getting huge traffic
  • Never ever get any visitor form Bing
    does it ban my site??
    I love google more
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    • Yet more BS from Bing, it actually makes me laugh

      I searched for a popular casino game on Bing

      on page two I found a grey hound racing system, what the hell

      someone over at microsoft needs to get their thumb out of their A$$ and realize that their search engine is crap
  • quit yer crying... you don't like bing, we get it.
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    • 2 of my sites rank highly on Bing and were both page 1 Google and have dropped off never to return to Google

      Last analytics I did Bing and Yahoo were seeing 6000+ back links to my sites and google was seeing only 22 backlinks!!

      I get very little Traffiic from Bing IMHO

      That said someone once told me that People use Google to seek answers, find info and Bing they use more for shopping

      Considering that most Pcs come with IE and Bing bundled do you think there is some value to that statement?

    • I don't like it for very good reasons

      if you had a games website making $15000 a month because it ranks very highly on google and it was there because google realizes what a great and popular website it is yet Bing chooses to completely ignore it you'd be pissed of with it to

      if you had a blackjack website making even more than the games website because again google realizes it's a popular site and again bing chose to ignore it in because of Craps and Baccarat websites again you would be pissed of

      Bing is crap
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  • Link building for me is already enough as long as you are knowledgeable of many methods.
  • For some reason my websites largely get ignored by BING, it's pretty annoying when you've done all you can to outrank your competitors(meaning good SERP placement in Google) but Bing will not even rank you in the first 5 pages :-(

    In the end there's not much more you can do than to have good relevant content and backlinks pointing to the content, if they still don't like you, well well . . .
  • Yahoo will soon be using Bing's search algorithms so it's a good idea to learn it, since it'll be a major player in the game along with Google.
  • All have the same idea of building the quality backlinks....
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    What about bing

    Hi, Any ideas to be top in bing? I see that if google is making me crazy, bing is even more. I don´t know how to do it in bing or if it is worthy, because for the moment it seems that there is not so much traffic there.