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Every Webmasters know that Bing is a new search engine from Microsoft. I heard a lot of questions about Bing from webmasters
Some questions are :-
- I want to do Search engine optimization for Bing—what should I do?
- How do I gain top positioning in Bing?
- How is Bing different in terms of Search engine optimization?
- What do webmasters need to know and do Search engine optimization?
- Are there any Secret tips for successful ranking?
So I searched about Bing on the web and found some cool factors to do Search engine optimization for Bing, that may be useful for webmasters. Optimizing for Bing is no more different from optimizing for Google.
So it is important that you know how to optimize your website for Bing. Now, let me share with you a few tips to get your website to rank better in Bing search engine.
Here is what seems to be important to Search engine optimization for Bing :-
Content is king in Bing
- Always write unique and original content.
- Avoid duplicate content.
- Use simple and readable sentences
- Don’t use a lot of keywords
URLs
- Keep URLs simple
- Convert URLs into SEO friendly structure.
Sitemaps
- Create XML sitemap and submit to Bing webmaster Center
- Keep the size of XML file to be maximum 10 MB compressed.
Title and Meta-tags
- If you don’t adhere to it then your website will not be listed in search results.
Domain Age
- Domain age seems to be an important factor in Bing – the older, the better.
Make sure Bing knows about your site :-
In Bing, link spamming will be less effective than Google. Review the Bing official guidelines for successful indexing document for various recommendations on technical and content issues. Bing has a Webmaster Center, similar to Google’s Webmaster Central.
Use W3C Markup Validation Service to validate your website for any HTML/CSS error.
On the official Bing blog, Principal Program Manager Rajesh Srivastava is offering up some tips on how to conduct search engine optimization (SEO) for Bing.
Do let us know, do you optimize your blog for bing search engine or your target is only Google search engine?
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Agreed to all the points except the submission of site to bing, I would rather love search engines to index me rather than me submitting my blog, though submitting a sitemap is a good practice but not url
This is definitely the first article I’m reading about optimization for Bing! Pretty useful links. There should definitely be an advantage for new bloggers since the pre-existing blogs would be having far too less advantage in terms of number of pages indexed. Though domain-age might be an important factor, Bing seems to be indexing new blogs quicker than Google.
Frankly speaking, most webmasters and bloggers have paid no attention to Bing, a search engine can’t bring any traffic to us.
Thus, it is really difficult to find one article about how to optimize the blog for Bing.
this is frst ever post i have seen on web related to BING optimization
i was unaware that domain age and meta tags play an important role in bing
ATUL
Domain age doesn’t play a role, it depends on the meta and the keywords that has been used. I completely disagree with the domain age thing.
Well Ram I am sure.I searched about Bing on the web and found in some articles that Bing also considers your domain age for site ranking.May be u r right.
Sometime articles can be misleading my friend, many of my posts are listed in the first position (although many other people have written abt it, whose site is years old). I think it all depends on the quality. Neither Google nor Bing in my experience considers that, although Yahoo has this factor I guess. Bcoz some posts that are listed in the first page in G & B are not listed in the first 10 pages of yahoo.
I have noticed, If you dont update blog for long time your indexed page in bing will reduce as compared to the Google. Now i have 0 pages indexed on bing as compared to 80 last month.
Yes Rahul I’m totally agree with you.If you dont update blog for long time will be a negative point in bing like google.
I’m one those who is looking for this info. Good work friend, need to know more about this.
BING is Not Google! It’s quite slow in indexing pages…
Great analysis. We focus too much on Google and sometimes we miss Bing and Yahoo and other SEs. This post reminds me about this, Bing exists. Thanks
This looks like it essentially boils down to “writing for Bing is like writing for Google only with even MORE emphasis on unique content”. I think that’s really the take home message from any SEO work we do today. Whether its Google, Yahoo or Bing, write quality content, often, and keep the basics in mine without being spammy and you’re good to go! Thanks
plz visit my site and ggive ur valuable suggestion and tell my how can i optimize my website to bing..
i wish Bing had analytics as google have…