Differences in keyword rankings in Google and Bing and Yahoo
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Hi there,
We have some keywords that are ranked so far apart on the search engines its puzzling.
For example we have keywords ranked at say 10, 9, 7 etc on Google, not in top 50 on Bing or Yahoo. Stuff like that.
Surely the algorithms can’t be that far apart? Is this indeed normal? Does anyone have the same issues?
Thanks
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Based upon watching a limited number of sites I believe that Bing is more influenced by onpage factors than Google... and Google is more influenced by links and domain authority than Bing.
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