Bing | The search engine thats making some noise. But… whassup?
Ok we know its been a while since my last post - (c’mon I have a company to run ;O) ) so we wont dwell on it. Let’s move on…
As we all know, Bing.com is the new (or relatively new) search engine. They’re making big pushes marketing wise and have ads popping up a little bit everywhere.
So Googled SEO’ed sites on Bing’s SERPs are producing very different results that the other primary search engines.
Do we know what Search Engine indexing methods / alogo’s they are using?
Will this now be considered another Primary?
Upon looking into the situation a little more closely - There seems to be an individual Tim Grice over at SEOWIZZ who has looked into the Bing/Google conundrum. (thanks Tim)http://www.seowizz.net/2009/06/bing-seo-how-does-it-differ-to-google.html
Link posted here to Google and Bing SEO -
If what he is saying is in fact true (yet to be tested by me if that warrants merit), then we’re going to have some interesting results. Although there seem to be many of the comments in relation to his post who are in fact stating equivalency between both engines…
Coincidence? Opinions please…
Could it be that Bing, is more sensitive to certain aspects Google SEO factors and methodologies. I suppose the ol’ adage holds true.
The best SEO is just to make a proper site.
Thoughts?
June 18th, 2009 at 11:00 am
Hi, and thanks for the shout.
Just thought I’d give a little background to the ‘Bing’ differences. Most of our research at SEO wizz has shown that Bing is very similar to Google in the way it ranks sites, almost a good copy. However we have found differences in that older domains tend to rank better for competitive keywords, Bings way of preventing spam but leaves new sites with an impossible task.
June 18th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Thanks for the input!
It’s interesting to hold a high value to older domains (smart and logical) but limiting and not as attractive to those trying to develop their internet platform and strategies now that people are beginning to strategically address their website sites and entourage.
It would be interesting to know whether its strictly age of the site (domain) or whether versions of the site play a factor.
I would assume 301’s would enable us to preserve our site’s “age” - what do you think?