Mastering Search : bing

Bing Makes it Easier to Find People

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 14 May 2013 18:45:00 GMT

According to Bing, people are the second most searched for category on its search engine, and represent nearly 10 percent of all searches. Because of this, the company has launched a new feature to its search engine called People Autosuggest, which enables...(read more)

Session-Based Keyword Research

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:15:00 GMT

Bing suggested a rather unique approach to keyword research that search engine optimizaiton professionals may seriously want to consider. Keyword research is clearly important to the success of an SEO campaign as you need to know what content will attract...(read more)

Bing’s Social Sidebar Gets Interactive

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Mon, 13 May 2013 17:47:00 GMT

Microsoft is making its search engine even more social, by allowing its users to comment and like stuff on Facebook directly from Bing. The search engine’s social sidebar, which was launched last year, now allows users to view comments on relevant...(read more)

How Windows 8 will Impact Your Marketing Strategy

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 13:15:00 GMT

By Jessica Davis, Godot Media Windows 8 debuted in October last year. Following its launch and imminent adoption, marketers have started exploring ways to tweak their marketing strategies to leverage the new changes. Before we get into the implication...(read more)

Are Redirects Outdated?

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMT

Consider Bing to be a webmaster’s friend with a truck. This is because Bing is helping them move. Webmasters can use Bing’s new Site Move tool to tell the search engine that their sites have moved and permanently redirected their sites, or...(read more)

Bing Accommodates Webmasters with Sitemap Plugin

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:45:00 GMT

Last week was a big one for Bing. The Mircosoft-owned search engine announced a substantial update that consisted primarily of three major changes. Two of these refinements are distinctly user-centric, as they provide a new tile-based image search layout...(read more)

Bing and the Evolution of Social Search

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:30:00 GMT

One complaint that Internet users tend to lodge about Google is that the Web services company tries to force users into adopting all of its various properties to get the full range of benefits from using just one of them. Of course, Google does this because...(read more)

Bing Adds People and Places to Snapshot

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:43:00 GMT

Bing's Snapshot, which displays information such as maps, movie times and restaurant menus directly within search result pages, now includes two new categories – people and landmarks. Snapshot is the middle column between Bing’s main search...(read more)

Get to Know Bing's Webmaster Guidelines

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:45:00 GMT

The big news in the search engine world this week has been the release of Bing’s Webmaster Guidelines (finally!), which are meant to help the webmasters and publishers get their content found and indexed on the Microsoft-owned search engine. Slowly...(read more)

Bing and Yelp Team Up to Take on Google Places

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:00:00 GMT

Last week, Microsoft’s Bing search engine announced a huge partnership with user review and recommendations site Yelp that could help position both companies to overthrow their common nemesis, Google, and its Google Places service, in particular...(read more)

Fight Spammy Links with New Webmaster Tool

'Net Features : wm-searchmarketing — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:00:00 GMT

While building quality links can be a difficult task, avoiding suspicious or spammy links can be even more of a challenge. This is why Bing has been hard at work to create a featue that enables Web workers to notify the search engine when a suspicious...(read more)