Have you used the new Bing.com yet? I love me some google! But they say Bing.com is the fastest growing search engine. I guess it doesn’t hurt much that Microsoft is pushing a bucket of money at it either. Make that 10 buckets of money. Anyway, the weird thing about Bing is that in it’s quest to be King of the web it seems to be indexing everything in sight. I mean, even things that weren’t indexed in MSN Live Search. Case and point, I have a joke blog Top Jokes that’s been all but forgotten by Google, I think I pissed them off at one time or another and they banned that site for good. Yahoo has it indexed, but I get minimal traffic from it. Then the other day I noticed I’m getting like 200 pageviews a day from bing.com out of nowhere:
Check it out – isn’t that weird? I did fix what I thought the problem was with the google indexing, and I did request reinclusion to try to get back into the google search engine. But even if your web site doesn’t have google indexing problems – you want to make sure that your site is “registered” in all 3 search engines. You might not even get listed in Yahoo! or or Bing if you don’t register your site (and your sitemap!). I’ve blogged about all this before, but I have many new readers since the last time I mentioned it, so I may have to revisit it in a future post series.
In the meantime – if you don’t already know it all 3 search engines have a “webmaster tools” login where you can register both your site and your sitemap.
1. If you don’t already have a sitemap, install the WordPress plugin Google XML Sitemaps
2. Register your site and sitemap with Google Webmaster Tools
3. Register your site and sitemap with Yahoo Site Explorer
4. Register your site and sitemap with Bing Webmaster Center
Maybe Bing.com or one of the other search engines can bring your site back from the dead!
Wow!! I knew Bing was making waves but I didn’t know it was getting so imortant!!! Of course I’ll give it a try!!! Thanks a looot for the post!
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Hey JT thanks for bringing the obvious to my attention – I have sitemaps registered with the big three but hadn’t thought to look for a webmasters section over at Bing. I have noticed a fair amount of traffic coming from Bing though guess I’ve just been lazy. 🙂
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I have noticed a lot of traffic to my sites from bing as well. Not complianing here. I think Bing is good for sites and blogs with good content just because of the oage snippet that pops up when you hover your mouse over a search listing
I still get the majority of my search engine traffic from Google though. And sadly when doing SEO google is still my main focus
Call it a habit of a lifetime
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Ive noticed a similar thing with some of my older websites – all of a sudden Ive started get a lot more search traffic from Bing – its great!
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Thanks for the tip, will look into that. I have noticed that Bing will pay a lot of attention to the site url. From my experience you should rank fairly easily in Bing for the exact term “top jokes” for your site since it’s in the url.
Hi,
I know about Bing and have heard the traffic from Bing can be very good.
What I would like to know is how do you get your pages indexed in Bing?
The home page is easy, but getting the other pages indexed is tough. I’ve heard you need links from other pages to your internal pages. Do you have any opinions or thoughts on this?
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Register your blog and sitemap with bing.com webmaster tools. Other than that – do what you’re doing already doing with google. Hopefully you already have an XML google sitemap setup to submit to bing, and you’ve already submitted it to Yahoo, and google as well.
I have gotten my sitemap updated with Yahoo, Bing and Google.
I’m currently working on getting as many backlinks as I can.
Thanks for your input.
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I noticed a similar with one of my sites that got sandboxed by Google – Bing continued to send me traffic. Even now the site ranks way better in Bing and B sends far more targetted traffic to it than G.
Bing seems to take longer to find my sites though.
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