As the smoke clears and the newness wears off, Microsoft’s revamped search engine Bing is starting to rub off on me…..I know, I know, I’m eating my words from Friday’s post. I have to admit, the simplified search function helps in my personal life, but what implications does that have with regards to link building?
Bing, the ‘decision engine’, is designed to create an easier experience for searchers by providing you with more detailed and precise search results. A one word search, such as "truck", yields basically three results each for: what "it" is, who produces "it", variations of "it", prices for "it", reviews for "it", images of "it", videos of "it", and locations to find "it".
What does this simplification mean for link builders? The end of eccomerce and first page listings for small businesses? I wouldn’t go that far, but in time I imagine we will be seeing less and less small businesses in the top listings, and more of an emphasis on large brands dominating search results. All of this is assuming that Microsoft’s $100 million advertising plan works, and we all start using Bing more than Google. Without that, Bing is simply just another Live – unpopular and unused.
So what is a small or large site to do in preparation, besides looking at the usual webmaster tools? Well for starters, take a look at your meta titles, keywords, and descriptions. Are you trying to ‘crowd’ your homepage with too many keywords? It may be time to revamp your site and reorganize the keywords associated with each of your landing pages. If you are trying to target too many keywords to one page, then presumably search engines with detailed search, like Bing, will have a harder time determining what your page is really about.
This concept is nothing new, but one has to draw the conclusion that when search engines get more detailed about results it means they’re looking for even more details than before. With the previous example search term "truck" the site owner could possibly include a page that hits each and every one of the categorical results that show up for the term "truck". Dedicate a page to answering: what "it" is, who produces "it", variations of "it", prices for "it", reviews for "it", images of "it", videos of "it", and locations to find "it".
Bing still has a ways to go to compete with Google’s market share, but with events like Hulu’s Bing-a-thon and creative commercials it may be sooner than we all thought!
Tags: bing, Google, link builder, search engine
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June 9th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
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June 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
I have found the results at Bing to be poor vs. that of Google and Yahoo. Although they have improved the interface, it is relevant results that count. After conducting over 50 different unrelated searches, I found About.com had multiple top ten rankings for the same phrase.
Some rankings in the top 20 had “home” as the HTML page title. Certainly with 800,000 possible results, they can offer more relevant results than “home”.
I believe after the advertising hype is over, BING will settle in right where Live was in terms of market share. After all, it really is search results that count, not hype.
June 10th, 2009 at 10:53 am
I have found the results at Bing to be poor vs. that of Google and Yahoo. Although they have improved the interface, it is relevant results that count. After conducting over 50 different unrelated searches, I found About.com had multiple top ten rankings for the same phrase.
Some rankings in the top 20 had “home” as the HTML page title. Certainly with 800,000 possible results, they can offer more relevant results than “home”.
I believe after the advertising hype is over, BING will settle in right where Live was in terms of market share. After all, it really is search results that count, not hype.
June 11th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I sure hope you are wrong about the big players dominating. It would be a real throwback to the 70s.
Especially bad since so many of the biggies don’t runtheir businesses very well.
June 10th, 2009 at 7:06 pm
I sure hope you are wrong about the big players dominating. It would be a real throwback to the 70s.
Especially bad since so many of the biggies don’t runtheir businesses very well.
June 11th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Bing still got a popular view.it has became popular.
June 11th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Bing still got a popular view.it has became popular.
June 24th, 2009 at 10:10 am
I have tried bing for a couple of days. I’m not impressed, but i am the type that don’t like over-hyped novelties. Maybe when no one will be talking about it anymore i will look at it better.
June 24th, 2009 at 3:10 am
I have tried bing for a couple of days. I’m not impressed, but i am the type that don’t like over-hyped novelties. Maybe when no one will be talking about it anymore i will look at it better.
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