Forums: Google vs. Bing

by noon88
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I'm working on a forum that gets 20,000 organic clicks from Google and only 100 from Bing. That difference is staggering and I can't figure out how it could be so broad. The forum has thousands of posts so how could Bing not be picking it up? Does anyone have any ideas how to optimize the forum for Bing? Wish I could give the url but it's for a client, so confidential.
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  • Profile picture of the author justaskismall
    20,000 organic clicks?
    it is come from your blog or what??
    how old your blog?
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  • Profile picture of the author noon88
    I wish it were mine. I'm trying to help them monetize it better. It's the first time I've worked with a forum and I can't believe the difference between Google organics and Bing organics. I'm hoping somebody else knows about this or has had the same experience so they can shed some light on it. Anyone?
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  • Profile picture of the author Rbtmarshall
    Google's market share is one reason.

    If you link your site to google and bings webmaster tools, you'd have better insight as to where those results are coming from
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  • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
    Bing is just not a big player. I have followed the Bing Webmaster tools instructions for a few sites and it brings in about 1% as much traffic as the big G. That just seemed normal to me, so I haven't even wondered about it.

    Edit: oops, just checked another site and it's about 8% there.
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  • Profile picture of the author noon88
    I'm used to seeing Bing deliver about 10-20% that of Google but this spread is off the charts. There has to be something wrong or something about forums imparticularly that Bing doesn't like.
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  • Profile picture of the author noon88
    I think I just found the answer. In searching around the net, I found an article that talks about how Google indexs everything where Bing is somewhat limited in it's capabality to index large sites. My takeaway is that if I can create more anchor links within the forum, it might help Bing find more pages thus indexing more. We'll see.
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  • Profile picture of the author PBScott
    Bing seems to be much more selective about who they include...it is to me a more premium search engine...unfortunately for me, they do not like me very much. When they had 10% of the search market, I was only getting about 4% of the visitors Google gave me.

    I am fully indexed in Bing, just not promoted by them.

    Google is still the best proponent of the little guy, but not sadly halve as good as they used to be.
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    • Profile picture of the author noon88
      Originally Posted by PBScott View Post

      Google is still the best proponent of the little guy, but not sadly halve as good as they used to be.
      Tell me about it. They seem to be catering to the big companies mostly now. My client sells fishing gear. I put in a search for "fishing poles" yesterday and here's what dominated the page in natural results:
      • bass pro shop
      • dicks
      • cabelas
      • walmart
      • ebay
      • kmart
      • amazon
      It seems like Google has sold out.
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  • Profile picture of the author jacklinTH
    20,000 clicks that awesome,
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  • Profile picture of the author newtonguywoodiii
    This is not a surprise at all. I am thinking two reasons for this one:

    1.) Google is obviously larger than Bing. If we compare the number of Google users and Bing users, the gap would be too great.

    2.) Bing is quite picky as to what site to include. Usually, they only include larger websites. This gives no chance to those who are still starting out their website.

    Anyway, do not worry. If I would have 20,000 organic clicks from Googles, I wouldn't even be scared not to link my posts./websites to Bing.
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