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Bing Tools Reduce Risk of Removal

Remember when you took all of that time to create the perfect website, and then you went through the process of search engine optimization to get the best possible listing for your site, and then . . . you were removed from the index...

So Long Site Explorer

Now that the Bing/Yahoo Search Alliance is in full effect there seems to no longer be a need for Yahoo! Site Explorer – one of the most used search engine optimization tools on the market – so Yahoo! is shutting the service...

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Bing adCenter Radius Targeting

Bing (and yes, Yahoo!) search advertisers are now able to target advertising to appear when consumers search around a specific geographic location - up to a 100 mile radius. Bing expects radius targeting (which enables advertisers...

Matching Logic in Bing adCenter

Last week Bing announced that the ad matching logic used in Microsoft Advertising adCenter has been updated. Advertisers bidding only on the singular or only on the plural form of a keyword, adcenter will serve ads for both singular...

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Search Rankings Remain Steady – Explicit and Core

comScore released its monthly analysis of the U.S. search marketplace last week. Google Sites led the “explicit core search" market (searches occuring directly/explicitly at those destinations) in May with a 65.9 percent...

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Honey Badger: Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing announced several updates to its Webmaster Tools platform. The name of the update is Honey Badger to those playing along at home (more on that below). Let's look at some of the new features and why they will prove important...

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Microdata Wins - Schema.org Brings Richer Web

Google, Bing and Yahoo jointly announced a new initiative today at Schema.org to create and support a common vocabulary for structured data markup on web pages in Microdata. For many years search engines have worked independently of...

Today Bing Forever Changes Search and SEO

Bing has made an announcement that might prove to be the biggest blow ever dealt to rival Google. Starting now, Bing will incorporate Facebook data into search results in the most personal and actionable social search to date. In short...

Compete Releases New Search Market Share Data

Compete has released its search market share data for March 2011 based on the search behavior of the company’s panel of more than 2 million U.S.-based internet users. Search activity picked up in March with a 9.2 percent month...

Bing Shopping Gets More Social, Visual

Microsoft has redesigned Bing Shopping to help consumers make “more informed shopping decisions”, according to the announcement on the Bing Search blog . The revamped homepage provides a more visual display of the most...

Better Bing Business Portal Arrives

Bing has made a few important improvements to (and renamed) its local business directory offering. The beta version adds the ability for owners to create, claim and manage listings and perhaps more importantly, promote special deals...

Bing's Been Busy

Microsoft’s search engine Bing was the subject of several announcements in March that will impact countless businesses on the Web. Most recently, Bing confirmed the launch of its instant search feature that it had been promising...

20 User Review Websites Critical to Small Business

According to an internal analysis of small business search results, Marchex – a provider of small business marketing products – found that more than 80 percent of results did not point to the websites of those businesses...

Bing Beats Google to the Daily Deals Market

A new partnership with daily deals aggregator The Dealmap is the springboard for Microsoft’s entry into the explosive local-buying space. Called Bing Deals, the new service will deliver discounted local deals and coupons through...

Natural Language Search at Bing Shopping

Consumers conducting queries (searching) on Bing Shopping will arguably receive a better (read more accurate) experience thanks to some improvements to how the search engine processes natural language queries - particuarly in regards...

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