Category: Bing SEO

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…

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…

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:

Bing…

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.

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…

Recently, Bing updated their safety page to bolster the features and make for a better…

Recently, Bing updated their safety page to bolster the features and make for a better…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Last night, Bing has updated their webmaster guidelines adding a section about “keyword stuffing.” Surprised it wasn’t there from the onset? Yea, me too but truthfully…

Duane Forrester, Bing’s version of Matt Cutts (on some level), posted this long blog post on the importance of keywords in domain names on rankings.

In short…

As you can see from the design of this site today, we are all decked out celebrating Microsoft’s launch of Bing four years ago today.

But that is not why I am writing this story, there seems to be some chatter, again…