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Bing announces refreshed Bing Webmaster Tools
In the coming weeks, a new Bing Webmaster Tools will make for a faster, cleaner, responsive and actionable toolset for SEOs and webmasters.
Botify partnership with Microsoft brings real-time content indexing to Bing
Immediate indexing and more control over content are the benefits for publishers and site owners.
With Bing Pages, brands can manage their profiles across Microsoft products, including Bing Search
Brands can also use Bing Pages to promote their social content on relevant search results.
SEOs must focus on intent research practices in 2020
It is more important than ever to update your research methods since the release of BERT and the evolution of natural language processing.
The consumer decision journey will drive paid search in 2020
In organic search, you're going to see a push of data directly to search engines instead of relying on them to crawl.
Yandex, the big Russian search engine, releases Vega update
Yandex doubled the size of its index, made it faster and added human elements to search.
Bing to update BingBot’s user agent
BingBot is getting a new name, just like GoogleBot - are you ready?
Video: Frédéric Dubut of Bing on core ranking, spam fighting and much more
The Lead PM of Bing’s Core Ranking Team sat down and answered some questions around how Bing Search works.
Bing introduces penalty for ‘inorganic site structure’ violations
It includes penalties for subdomain leasing, doorway content and sites involved in private blog networks.
Bing launches content submission pilot
Bing is testing a feature to let some publishers not just submit URLs to the search engine but also submit content and images.
Bingbot goes evergreen
Bing will adopt Chromium-based Edge browser to run JavaScript and render pages.
Bing Webmaster Tools allows site verification via Google Search Console
The beta option enables site owners to skip verification by importing.
Bing Webmaster Tools adds Domain Connect verification integration
Bing makes it easier to verify some sites with Bing Webmaster Tools.
Bing is asking for feedback on its Webmaster Guidelines
“Any shady tactics you think are not penalized enough?” Bing project manager tweeted.
Why Google dropped Bing Discover pages from its index
No matter how big you are, if you go against Google's guidelines it can end up biting you.
Bing showing a streamlined recipe carousel in search results
Users can still filter rich results according to time and nutrition.
Using structured data to create a semantically enhanced web
At SMX Advanced, speakers Cata Milos and Max Prin highlight the rise of structured data for Bing and Google – and the work being done to expand its practical use.
Bing now supports batch mode for submitting URLs to Bing
You can now use a single Bing API request to submit up to 500 URLs, instead of making 500 individual API requests.
Google and Bing talk web spam and penalties
How Bing and Google do algorithm updates to improve their search results and how to deal with penalties.
Microsoft goes open source with one of its Bing algorithms
Microsoft's Space Partition Tree and Graph algorithm enables developers to apply vector search to traditional, audio and visual queries.
Google apologizes for rel=next/prev mixup
Google suggests webmasters, developers, and publisher continue to use rel=prev/next for other reasons outside of Google indexing purposes.
Bing upgrades text-to-speech, expands intelligent answers, improves visual search
Check out the latest upgrades made to Bing around voice, image and answer search.
Bing to publishers: Start using new Bing URL submission process for indexing now
Do you have new or updated content you want Bing to discover faster? Start using the new Bing URL Submission tool.
Bing lets webmasters submit 10,000 URLs per day through Webmaster Tools
How about a 1000x increase in the number of URLs you can submit to Bing in a day?
In-depth with Bing Webmaster Tools — the definitive guide
Get up close and personal with the functionality offered in Bing Webmaster Tools in this six-part series.
Robots.txt tip from Bing: Include all relevant directives if you have a Bingbot section
Pay close attention to the directives you give to Bingbot and other search engines in your robots.txt files.
Bing crawling, indexing and rendering: A step-by-step on how it works
Crawlers are technical but understandable thanks to Microsoft's Senior Program Manager Frédéric Dubut's presentation at SMX East.
Bing resolves backlog with its Webmaster Tools URL submission tool
Spammers went from the public Bing URL submission tool to the authenticated version, causing a backlog of URLs that needed to be processed.
Bing says it is improving web crawler efficiency
Bing is working on making sure its crawler doesn't miss new content and at the same time overload your web servers.
Bing votes ‘no’ on political candidate and ballot measure ads
The policy will not likely impact Bing's ad revenue as the search engine reports political ads make up a small portion of its advertising volume.
Bing finally releases AMP viewer for news stories in mobile search
The Bing AMP viewer and Bing AMP Cache make AMP-enabled web pages accessible from Bing mobile search results.
Bing shuts down public URL submission tool
This decision may help Bing reduce spam shown in the search results and focus on more trustworthy content.
Ask an SMXpert — Advanced Technical SEO for Bing
SMXpert and Microsoft Senior Program Manager Frederic Dubut answers questions on how Bing handles redirects, crawl budgets and more.
Bing adds hotel booking filter, home services pricing & coupon deals in search
Bing launches new intelligent search features to help you make better buying decisions.
Survey: SEO rated the ‘least popular digital marketing channel’
Only 44% of businesses said SEO was a part of their digital strategy.
Bing announces Bing AMP viewer & JSON-LD support in Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing announced two new features at SMX Advanced this morning.
Bing has confirmed support for JSON-LD formatted Schema.org markup
Though not yet available in the toolset, buildout of verification support within Bing Webmaster Tools is in progress.
Bing Entity Search API is now available
The API enables you to pull Bing Knowledge Graph information about people, places, things, and local businesses directly into your sites and apps.
Bing Webmaster Tools adds social sign-in feature
You can now log into your Bing Webmaster Tools account using your Google or Facebook login.
Bing launches 2017 Black Friday ads, expands list of delivery services for package-tracking search feature
Bing also announced new weather and sports-related search updates and a photo contest.