Does Bing Have What It Takes To Flaunt Video Search Results?
Nov 5, 2009 at 6:00am ET by Eric Papczun
Now that Bing is officially a major player, it's time to ask some important questions. Are Bing video search results delivering a winning performance? Does Bing match searcher queries with relevant results? For advertisers, what is needed from an optimization standpoint to make your video standout among a search crowd?
Let’s use the popular music group “Black Eyed Peas” as an example. After conducting a series of different searches with the band name being the basis of the query I observed the following:
Query 1: black eyed peas. Images of the band were among the top positions, whi [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing SEO, Video Search
Sorry, Yahoo, You DO Index The Meta Keywords Tag
Oct 14, 2009 at 2:31pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Oh, that this weren't true. Last week, Yahoo made news by disclosing that it had quietly dropped support for the meta keywords tag. As a long time hater of that tag and the insane questions it has produced, I was thrilled! But today, I see conclusively that Yahoo still supports the tag.
The test was simple. I placed a unique word in the meta keywords tag on the home page of Search Engine Land. This word -- xcvteuflsowkldlslkslklsk -- generated no results on Yahoo when I looked earlier this week. Today, when I searched, it brought back the Search Engine Land home page. Thus, Yahoo indeed ind [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEO: Tagging, SEO: Titles & Descriptions, SEO: Writing & Body Copy, Top News, Yahoo: SEO
How To Ask A Google Engineer For SEO Help
Oct 5, 2009 at 12:34am ET by Danny Sullivan
Search conferences are an excellent opportunity to connect personally with representatives from Google, as well as Yahoo and Bing, for advice and assistance with SEO issues. With our SMX East search engine marketing conference starting tomorrow in New York, I thought it was a good time to list my personal thoughts on the right and wrong way to approach them.
I'm not a search engine representative, but I know a number of them and have talked with many about the interactions they have with people at conferences in the 10 years I've been programming such shows. I think my tips will help, [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: SEO, Google: Webmaster Central, How To: SEO, Microsoft: Bing SEO, SEM Industry: Conferences, Top News
Video Interview With Bing’s Webmaster Team
Sep 25, 2009 at 9:37am ET by Barry Schwartz
Rand from SEOmoz posted a 17 minute interview with the Bing webmaster team from Microsoft. In the interview he talks with Eric, Rajesh, and Alessandro from Bing about topics including market share, the Yahoo deal, SEO for Bing, Bing webmaster tools, and the Bing IIS Toolkit.
Here is the video:
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday - Interview: The Bing Team from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo. [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing SEO
Bing Continues With Fake Referrers: What Part Of Stop Don’t They Understand?
Aug 26, 2009 at 9:44am ET by Danny Sullivan
For over two years now, Microsoft's search engine has been generating fake information that can make site owners think they're getting strange search traffic (including porn traffic), when they are not. It's time for this to come to an end.
The culprit? Microsoft's "crawler," the software that visits web pages across the web that go into the search engine. The crawler is known as MSNBot, from the days when the recently renamed Bing search engine was known as MSN Search. When that crawler gathers a web page, it sometimes leaves behind "referrer" information in a web site's logs -- fake refer [...]
Filed in: Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Bing SEO, Top News
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