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I'd say stick with what you have. Even if it exceeds 70 characters, like you say it's a recommendation to stay within it, not an absolute.

Ha! Duly noted with your last name being Tan!

Those were pretty much my initial thoughts as well, just wanted to get confirmation of my thought process.

I guess I'd have to see an example of a "ridiculously spammy" Quick View link to fully understand your point on that, but the end remains the same: Do what's best for the user and all is well.

Thanks for the reply!

Can you find a happy medium with the anchor text like "cool sheepskin seat covers"?

Here's a little somethin' of what I'm lookin' for...

http://www.searchenginejournal.com/bing-rankings-cheat-sheet/29847/

Now that I think about that a slideshow or gallery could work, just make sure you have "Sheepskin Seat Covers" under your sheepskin seat cover pic with both the pic and text linked to the same page.

I came across this question on why the poster's rankings in Bing/Yahoo were so much lower than his rankings in Google. One of the links responded with was a presentation Rand gave about the difference in ranking elements of Google and Bing.

My purpose for looking into this is to boost rankings in Bing to be more in line with my Google rankings. My takeaways from Rand's presentation were that Bing likes shorter URLs than Google and it's better to have more links from more root domains with more precise anchor text.

Unfortunately this presentation was given at last year's SMX Advanced and is almost a year old. Since then Microsoft has been accused of basically scraping the Google SERPs and Google unleashed at least two maybe three rabid Pandas. Needless to say the environment has changed.

So my question is for those people who are happy with how they rank in Bing: What SEO factors are you seeing make a bigger impact in Bing vs. how they impact your Google rankings?

I thought about this after lunch and while I still stand behind my original post I think you can get away with leaving off your brand name if your products have a brand of their own.

Search for "Chuck Taylor All Stars". That's a brand in and of itself so Converse didn't add their name to that title tag.

Whereas if we're talking about a general product I'd say absolutely add the brand name like with "Pencil Sharpeners | Office Max".