Is bing worth paying attention to?

13 years ago

I think so! Google is the big one right now, and for a long time I suppose!! I do use Bing for pictures sometimes, they're better than Google but I don't like it otherwise!

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konakid 13 years ago

Google has something like 80% of the search market. Of course, there are so many billions of searches that there is still quite a bit of money flowing through the other search engines.

Personally I use Bing ads as well as Google and like both.
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dudelive

13 years ago

Bing is still worth pleasing. I get a lot of organic traffic from Bing. Google is a major player but if you only try to rank on the big G you will not survive. I submit to over 200 different search engines and combined they give me more traffic than Google. Also Bing and the other search engines are easy on the wallet when buying clicks.
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theaccountant 13 years ago

followup up question:

years ago bing and yahoo took a bit longer than google to index my pages but i have been offline for quite a while in between. Are the indexing strategies for bing/yahoo different than google?
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TroyCo

13 years ago

Bing ads are much cheaper than google, also Bing is putting a TON of money into advertising and branding themselves, which only helps the efforts you put into it

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Bisturi 13 years ago

Originally Posted by TroyCo

Bing ads are much cheaper than google, also Bing is putting a TON of money into advertising and branding themselves, which only helps the efforts you put into it

Are Bing ads as restrictive as Adwords ads (e.g. sending traffic to sales letter)?
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- Mormo 13 years ago
  
  Bing's launch commercials were so annoying I still hold a resentment.
  
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vjboc

13 years ago

I believe that Bing is now the default search engine for firefox now. It is definitely good to be in good spirits with the big G, but it don't hurt to be part of Bing, Yahoo and some of the others as well.

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MartinPlatt

13 years ago

They're all players with varying amounts of market share. If you had to target one, and you don't, then of course Google has the market share so it would be them.

The thing you have to remember, is that whilst Google is massive, other player in the market have enough market share to be really big.

It's worth thinking about whether you would rather be a small fish in a big pond, or a big fish in a small pond.

Personally I don't think you target anything - what would you do differently? You create great content, and get it indexed, then promote it. That's transparent to any search engine.

I think it's also a case of diversification - all eggs in one basket, or many string to your bow??

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TroyCo

13 years ago

bing is also partnered with facebook for the new graph search, they are gaining traction. I would use the 80/20 rule with this 80% of your search engine effort through google 20% to bing, yahoo

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mike gregory

13 years ago

Originally Posted by TroyCo

bing is also partnered with facebook for the new graph search, they are gaining traction. I would use the 80/20 rule with this 80% of your search engine effort through google 20% to bing, yahoo

This is true I have been reading up a lot regards FBGS and bing, time will tell. But early predictions say bing is going to start gaining some big traction from Facebook search.

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howtogurus

13 years ago

I have had good luck with Bing ads, and much cheaper than Google

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nicholasb

13 years ago

bing is a huge income earner for me, a good amount of my leads come from bing traffic. For me it converts very well.

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theaccountant 13 years ago

thanks very interesting
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jpboxersox

13 years ago

I think Bing search traffic is growing, customer service is much better (small businesses especially) Conversions are better for me sometimes and bid prices are much lower. So Yes Bing is great IMO.

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3Ddude 13 years ago

I have been using Bing to check on my organic SEO. The results are not as polluted as Google.
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- myron92 13 years ago
  
  If your talking about Bing Ads, then yes bing is good, quality traffic, quick ad approval.
  They are getting a bit fussy with what you can promote, but not as bad as google.
  
  volume is not as high, I only target broad match keywords, your wasting your time if you don't, just wont get impressions.
  
  Make money niche is a bit touch and go, rebills you would need to cloak (i'm not a cloaker by the way)
  
  Adult, you need to apply for an adult account, I couldn't get enough volume, your only allowed to use keywords from the list of keywords they provide for adult, to be honest I never tried hard with this campaign. You would be surprised what landers you can get away with lol
  
  Downloads are working best for me at the moment, have a couple of campaigns running on auto pilot for the last 7 months.
  
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espresso

13 years ago

its about 1/3 og google in the US
less in the EU

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JasonBennet

13 years ago

Interesting to know that Bing Ads has work for many Warriors here. I have personally tried Bing Ads but I am not getting enough impressions to get clicks for my offline venture. Time for me to take a look again.

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longblog

13 years ago

Something else to consider that I don't think has been mentioned yet, is that Bing has less tech savvy users. Less Tech Savvy users are sometimes easier to sell things to since they aren't aware of all the methods you are using.

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TroyCo

13 years ago

Originally Posted by longblog

Something else to consider that I don't think has been mentioned yet, is that Bing has less tech savvy users. Less Tech Savvy users are sometimes easier to sell things to since they aren't aware of all the methods you are using.

How do you figure?

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clever7

13 years ago

I noticed recently that my websites are getting a lot of organic traffic from Bing, and that these Bing visitors remain longer at my websites than Google visitors.

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longblog

13 years ago

Originally Posted by clever7

I noticed recently that my websites are getting a lot of organic traffic from Bing, and that these Bing visitors remain longer at my websites than Google visitors.

Because they're noobs :p

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YasirYar

13 years ago

If you want traffic regardless of source, then Bing is still worth looking into. Imagine if just one search engine can put you on the number one spot and drive you the most traffic, then it is well worth considering.

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NateRivers

13 years ago

Bing is very worth trying to figure out- and what's even faster and pretty cheap is Bing ads. Bing ads is very cool to work with and they have great volume.

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footbag_man

13 years ago

Bings ads are awesome.. Google adwords will ban you if you mess up.. Bing ads will help you out and they are less expensive than google.

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robingg14 13 years ago

I think so... if nothing else, my morale gets a boost when I rank high in Bing as Google de-indexes me . And anyway, whatever works for Google works for Bing so why not rank in both?
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Aspiring Guru

13 years ago

I think yes, especially with Windows 8 being more centered around Bing's apps. I still focus more on Google, but they definitely can make a difference.

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Sushiman1111

13 years ago

All the major search engines are worth pursuing. Even if Bing is only getting 10% of the searches that Google does, that's still 10% of a very large number (especially over time). I put most of my effort into Google, but some into Bing, Yahoo and the other ones on a scaled basis.

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tpw

13 years ago

According to this story released a few weeks ago, the market share for December 2012 broke down like this:

* Global Search Volume - 17.6 billion searches

* Google - 66.7 percent - 11.8 billion searches
* Bing - 16.3 percent - 2.9 billion searches
* Yahoo - 12.2 percent - 2.2 billion searches
* Ask - 3 percent - 543 million searches
* AOL - 1.8 percent - 310 million searches

With 2.9 billion searches per month on Bing, I'd say it is worth the time.

With another 2.2 billion searches per month on Yahoo, powered by Bing, Yahoo adds some serious punch to Bing's reach.

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Robert T Jillie

13 years ago

Bing actually edged out Yahoo in the spring of 2012, creating a bit of a stir and certainly more interest in the organic search engine optimization world.

If you are thinking about organic search engine optimization and small business Internet marketing you should probably be paying close attention to these trends.

Bing sends quite a lot of organic traffic to both my client sites and my own websites.

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williamrichard

13 years ago

Bing ads are great and it's cheaper than google.

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molsted

13 years ago

I love Bing!

Amazingly easy to rank sites there and it gives me quite a bit of traffic over all.

Oooops... that was supposed to be a secret!

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Mormo 13 years ago

I explored bing last night. I did a search and saw a link where it said my friends on facebook knew about this search. I clicked it and it asked for my facebook password which I thought was very suspicious. This morning my facebook account was hacked by someone in Poland.
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Heart Cardio

13 years ago

I have always liked google and yahoo but never bing. Not saying that it is not worth it but from my personal experience, I prefer the first two.

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