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Bing Rumored to Take Over Yahoo Search – SEO Firms Beware!

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

If you haven’t already heard the whispered rumors and news bits about Bing taking over Yahoo Search, here’s a brief summary.

Since Bing has completely taken over MSN’s search engine by engaging visitors with a myriad of search decisions, and Yahoo has been looking for a search engine to buy since 2004 this may be the answer for both parties. However, with Bing’s new vertical search ability, SEO firms  and Webmasters may have to completely rethink and revamp Websites to gain top search rankings on Bing.

SEO firms should evaluate how their Websites fare in Bing now versus MSN and Yahoo although a deal may be months away it’s still a good idea to research and plan a strategy.

According to WebmasterWorld, “You may want to research what factors influence Bing ranking and think about how that can safely be integrated into future optimization efforts if a deal with Yahoo is announced.”

Start with these helpful tips from BingDevelop and stay of abreast of forthcoming Bing SEO news, tips and trends from Search Circus, an ethical and expert SEO firm.

Get More Targeted Website Traffic Bling from Bing

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
Get Targeted Website Traffic with Bing

Get Targeted Website Traffic with Bing

Bing is now live and searchable, which was created to replace Windows Live Search. How will Bing compete with Google so your Website can get more targeted website traffic? Bing will still need to see quality and relevant content on your Website as well as be able to spider SEO friendly quality inbound links to get the targeted Website traffic you’ll need to rank among the top search results.

Here are a few ways to get more bling from Bing according to Axandra.com,

  • Bing displays web page previews in the search results when your mouse hovers over the right side of the search results.
  • Bing displays less results if it is has understood your search correctly. For example, a search for “Facebook”, garners the most relevant result which is the site itself. Therefore, by using the most popular and targeted buzz word for each page of your Website is key.
  • Some search results are divided into categories, which may bring results for news, blogs, movies, etc.
  • Bing features a different background image every day. The image contains special hidden hotspots that lead you to more information about the image. Thus you’ll want to get targeted Website traffic by using relevant images with alt tags, which could lead to enhanced image advertising.
  • Bing’s video search lets you watch videos without leaving the search engine. Another opportunity for targeting your Website traffic using video SEO.
  • Bing offers specific health, shopping and travel search engines, as well as instant answers to travel searches.
  • Some of Google’s features are missing, for example, Bing doesn’t seem to recognize misspellings and returns no results in these cases, which is why you wouldn’t want to target misspellings on your Website or your paid search advertising.

Let Search Circus help you get the targeted Website traffic you deserve on Bing, call us to get started today.