Rankings in Bing/Yahoo lower than in Google
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Other than a few keywords, my rankings are consistently lower in MSN/Bing/Yahoo than in Google. Any ideas or suggestions as to why?
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Better looks to prepare a comparative checklist on factors yahoo, bing and google give importance. Repeat the same on competitors will lead you to the final decision.
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They use different algorithms so you would always get different rankings. The reason they'd be higher in Google just means that you've got more stuff that Google gives weighting to for the keywords than in the others... i.e. backlinks. And then of course some of your competition may have the opposite, they might be more highly tuned in ways that Bing & Yahoo factors in as important.
Your best solution is to look at what the perceived differences are in the algorithms and then maybe do a bit more of the stuff that you might be missing for Yahoo & Bing
If you're going to have better rankings in any of the search engines though, Google is by far the best!!
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