While Google is still the huge powerhouse when it comes to search market share in the US, Microsoft / Bing is definitely making its presence known with a nearly 2 percent increase from this time last year.
While Google and Bing's tools are good for giving you an idea of what those engines see as your backlinks, you'll probably be better off using a more robust link tool for analysis, as they don't give you all the information that you might want.
Then I'll cover Bing's connection to Graph Search, including both organic and paid search. A few days before my SES NY presentation, I was double checking how Facebook handled traffic it was sending to websites from the Bing fallback results.
As Google rolls out its Fiber service in Kansas, Bing has moved into Topeka, just a short drive down I-70 with an offer of their own. The Bing it On Challenge has apparently left Google's backyard of San Francisco and have taken the Bing it On...
Google is the web's most discerning user – Matt Cutts, March 2013: "What Google wants is what users want" and Bing is very close behind (if not in a slight lead thanks to Duane Forrester). While Google's Panda updates did help define "better...
But Bing is suggesting not showing 10 links all the time. Are you seeing less than 10 results in your Bing search results? Have you noticed Bing delivering different numbers of results lately? Starting last week, Bing began changing up their search...
Bing Ads and You: Keyword Distribution Graph Coming Soon – Bing Ads BlogNow in testing, this will give you a big picture view of the performance of thousands of keywords and identify opportunities. Microsoft’s Bing stops working for some users...
How do you see this impacting, if at all, market share of search with traditional search providers, Google and Bing? This will happen through deeper integration of Bing, or who knows – maybe an acquisition of Bing at some point.
Safe Searching with Bing: A Response to AV-TEST's Search Malware Analysis – Bing Search BlogBing says a recent malware study's conclusions are wrong because AV-TEST used Bing's API, not bing.com. Windows 8 App Refresh – Bing Search BlogBing News...
And Bing is right behind them, ready to implement a strategy of their own. While ongoing organic traffic mis-labeling due to mobile secured searches is the most obvious cause of decline since mid September of last year, Google has snuck in a huge...
For those smaller advertisers who have limited time to work in Bing Ads this is great news because the work they will invest in their Google enhanced campaigns will be importable "as is" into Bing Ads.
A month after hitting its highest U.S.search market share in February (67.5 percent), Google saw both Bing and Yahoo steal away what essentially amounts to crumbs from the giant pie that is Google's dominance, according to comScore.
When we talk landing pages, most online marketers think pay-per-click, where the input of a destination URL into Google's or Bing's paid search offerings allow marketers to drive keyword-targeted traffic to (hopefully) optimized pages.
Bing Delivers Five Times as Many Malicious Websites as Google – PC Magazine By the numbers: Google (272 malicious results out of 10 million examined); Bing (1,285 out of 10 million); Yandex (3,330 out of 13 million); Blekko (203 out of 3 million...
Ditto for Bing Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Tools revealed that spammy links now accounted for approximately 40 percent of his link profile (and as I found out over time, the number of spammy links was trending up).
Generally, a structured citation has the schema.org mark-up, which allows the search engine spiders across Google, Bing and Yahoo to read the data. If you're a small local business, having a Google+ Local profile is imperative to putting your brand...
How can you build your website in a way that will please both your visitors/customers, as well as Google, Bing, and other search engines? Skipping the basics and spending all your time and money on social and 'fancy stuff' is the same as skipping...
What really makes these programs trivial for Google or Bing to flag is when the award badges seem to appear only on the lesser authoritative sites of a market segment. Would you build the link if Google and Bing did not exist?
AdGooroo (disclosure: I work there) addressed these questions in a recent study comparing the paid search performance of advertisers on Google AdWords and Yahoo Bing across six verticals in the U.S.during Q3 2012:
The self-described “decision search engine”, Bing helps people with answers according to Bing Ads Evangelist, John Gagnon. Bing Ads had a light and welcoming booth with representatives ready to chat about the latest in advertisement.
