Bing and Yahoo rankings
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I must admit its every 3 months or so I check these listings
I would even admit we are that engrossed in google we forget these sites exist many times. I wanted to see if anyone had experience doing sep for these sites and what sort of techniques you used in order to help improve these rankings.
I tend to get great listings on Yahoo for many sites but bing seems slightly different.
Would love to find out some information on the algos on each of these.
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If you haven't already you could take a look at this article from a year ago:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-vs-bing-correlation-analysis-of-ranking-elements
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The thing is that all 3 search engines use pretty similar ranking factors.
For example Bing/Yahoo/Google all love the following:
1. Links from relevant sources.
2. Great relevant unique content.
3. Great on site design for crawler access.
4. All onsite SEO and off site factors, some small changes like the size of title tags/urls ect may be slightly different on each website.
You can also optimize for Bing webmaster tools for example you need to add every thing in a similar way to Google webmaster tools:
<cite>www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster/</cite>
Also Bing Ranking information can be found here:
If you have not done this I would highly recommend it, you can even use keyword research from Bing.
I also agree with DMAC that Bing seems to favour EMD domains (exact match domains) more so then Google does, I have tinkered around with a few tests on Bing and that is evident.
Also Bing has more social data to play with so you even need to push social rankings harder on Bing as they have the Facebook data access, which Google does not.
I hope this helps.
Kind Regards,
James Norquay
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there must be someone out there that just targets Bing specifically perhaps its less competitive. I also noticed recently that Bing has shopping results.
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I check both yahoo and bing regularly. It seems like Yahoo pretty much treats us about the same as Google. Bing gives us very high ranking only for the keywords that best describes our site. It seems like the keywords are tougher to get ranking on, but the ones that do enjoy the fruits of success. We don't do any SEO specifically for yahoo or bing. Thats my and I'm sticking with it.
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