Bing Search Algorithm Update On New Years Day?
A Black Hat World thread has one webmaster noticing his rankings significantly shifted within the Bing search results over New Years.
Truth is, very few people would take notice of this being it is (a) Bing and (b) New Years day…
Duane Forrester Returns To Bing After Being Laid Off From Microsoft Two Months Ago
Bing re-hires Duane Forrester after letting him go two months ago. Duane Forrester will be working in basically the same role as before.
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Bing Search Adds AMBER Alerts
Bing sources data from National Center for Missing & Exploited Children databases for their new AMBER alert box.
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Bing Reveals Their Panda Algorithm: Content Quality
The other day on the Bing search blog, Bing’s Michael Basilyan posted a nice amount of detail around how their algorithms determine content quality. In the Google world, this may be similar to how Google’s Panda algorithm works but not exactly…
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Bing: Content Quality Is A Primary Ranking Factor Made Up Of Authority, Utility & Presentation
Michael Basilyan, Senior Program Manager from the Bing Content Quality Team, shared a nice set of details on the Bing blog about how Bing’s algorithms determine what makes for content quality. Michael Basilyan explained that content quality is a primary factor in their ranking algorithm,…
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Bing Has Seen Tiny Number Of “Right to Be Forgotten” Requests So Far
Reputation VIP, which operates the Forget.me website in Europe, has said that Microsoft/Bing is starting to implement “Right to Be Forgotten” (RTBF) requests. The company released a study of RTBF requests and Google in October, which was generally consistent with Google’s own subsequently…
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Bing Mobile Ranking Techniques & Relevancy Factors
Mir Rosenberg from the Bing Mobile Relevancy team posted some of the “factors at play” when it comes to how determines mobile relevance and ranking in the mobile results. As you know, a couple weeks ago, Bing announced new mobile crawlers to help them discover and understand different…
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Bing Gets Serious About Crawling Mobile Web: Bingbot Mobile User Agents
Bing is getting serious about crawling the mobile web, finally. At least now, they shared how they are doing it by adding new Bingbot mobile user agents, so they can crawl more of the mobile web…
Bing Mocks Google About HTTPS Ranking Boost
Yesterday at SMX East on the panel well both Google and Bing sat, there was an open Q&A for the search engines and SEOs who were on that panel…
Bing Search Update Last Week Also?
Everyone is talking about the big Google update, Panda 4.1 but there may have been a Bing search update last week also.
One WebmasterWorld member said he believes there was a Bing update:
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Bing: 130 Million URLs Removed For URL Keyword Stuffing
Bing posted something you’d never see from Google, the details around how they detect and filter out spammers who use keywords in the URLs.
BingBot As GoogleBot? Maybe, If It Crawls Google’s PageSpeed Tool
A savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content…
Bing Malware Notifications Correct?
Recently, Bing updated their safety page to bolster the features and make for a better…
Bing Malware Notifications Correct?
Recently, Bing updated their safety page to bolster the features and make for a better…
Bing: How We Pick Your Title Tag
Microsoft Bing published a blog post on how they decide on what title tags to publish in their search results.
We covered this in detail most recently via a Google Matt Cutts video on how Google selects a title tag. So let’s go over it with Bing…
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Bing: You Can Have Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites.
Bing says they can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files…
Bing: Unnatural Links = Advanced Knowledge Of Links
On Friday, Duane Forrester from Bing posted his 10 SEO Myths and honestly, most of it was basic stuff, so much so that I missed a wowzer in there that Mat McGee caught and told me to cover at Search Engine Land, which I did immediately…
Bing Algorithm Update On May 5th?
It is rare for SEOs and Webmasters to bring up changes to the Bing search results and as you know, Bing powers Yahoo’s organic search results also.
But one webmaster, who actually sent me real data via email off the record…
Bing Search App Linking
Late last year, Google introduced a protocol named app indexing, which allows app developers to add meta data that will link a search result to a specific place within an Android app. It went live in the search results a month later…
Bing Warns: Poor Grammar May Lead To Poor Rankings
Duane Forrester from Bing strongly implied on the Bing Webmaster Blog that having poorly written content with poor grammar will have a negative impact on your search rankings within Bing…