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SEO Tips for Bing

By Ravi Krishnamurthy - Oct. 05, 2009

I'm looking to optimize my blog for Bing and was looking for some of the basic things I can do to improve the position of my search results for bing.

Currently 90%+ of my search traffic comes from Google, 5-6% from Yahoo! and

http://www.bing.com


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  1. By Thomas Tuk on Oct. 05, 2009

    The title tag is SUPER important for Bing - which is kinda stupid if you ask me because its going to lead to all kinds of spam links showing up in search results. But I'm assuming the guys in Seattle are smarter than this and have some way of factoring that into their algorithm. But if you want to do 1 thing quickly - ensure that the relevant key words are included in your title tag in a "non-spam-like" way (you don't want to risk being black-balled) and you'll see an improvement in your results in a matter of days/weeks.


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  2. By Terry Biscane on Oct. 06, 2009

    Domain Age: Bing is a lot harsher about domain age than Google. The longer your domain has been registered, the more favor it will find with Bing. One may consider acquiring older domains to enhance the chances of being picked up by Bing.


    Length of Text: For Bing, size does matter. So, ensure that your webpages have content of at least 300 words. The length of the text is more of a significant factor for Bing than it is for Google.


    Link Out: Google alters your page rank based on the relevance of the link out webpages. Often, people are unsure of how a particular link out would impact their webpage and steer clear of this option. However, Bing likes link outs and increases the page ranking of those webpages that have more of them.


    Title Tag of your Page: The title tag is of utmost importance for Bing. Without the relevant keyword in this area, your complete SEO efforts could be wasted.


    Title Tags of Other Pages: When you link out from your page, ensure that the title tags of the pages you have linked out to have the keyword that is most relevant to your page. Bing simply loves this.


    Link Popularity: Google is more fascinated with link popularity than Bing.


    For more, see - http://www.vedainformatics.com/blogs/bing-seo-tips/


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