New Features Relevant to Webmasters
June
1, 2009
Bing
Webmaster Center Team, Microsoft®
Table
of contents
As an owner of a website or a
publisher of content on the Web, you are no doubt interested in the big changes
Microsoft has implemented with the newly released version of its search engine,
dubbed Bing.
There are a great number of innovative changes in how searchers access search
content in the Bing index, and as a result, on your website. This white paper
was written for you, the folks whose content populates the Bing index. You’ll
want to know what Bing is, what changes in Bing pertain to you, and how to make
the most of those changes so you get more eyeballs on your website’s content.
Let’s get right to it.
What
is Bing?
Bing is a new search engine from
Microsoft. It crawls, analyzes, and indexes billions upon billions of webpages
and other Internet content and relates all of that to keywords and phrases used
by searchers (the principal way end users access the content of a search engine
index). But in broader terms, Bing is really a decision engine—a faster way to make
more informed choices.
According to Pew Research, people
are relying more and more on Internet search. In fact, approximately 50 percent
of web users use search every day and search is second only to e-mail in daily
tasks performed by web users. These search page views span everything from
shopping, travel, entertainment, research, work, local, socializing, sharing,
and more. The enormous quantity of content on the Internet can make sorting
through a huge, resulting list of relevant results difficult and frustrating
for the searcher.
As a result of this continuous
user engagement with search, Microsoft actively took on the challenge of
improving user web search scenarios. Bing brings a new way of thinking to using
SERPs, which has shown to demonstrably improve the satisfaction of searchers in
finding the answers to their questions, often far faster and more easily than
in the past.
Why make changes?
Multiple,
independent studies on how searchers read and use
SERPs have demonstrated a consistent pattern. Microsoft's own research and
studies replicated these findings. Researchers have named this pattern the
Golden Triangle. In essence, in a SERP containing a single-threaded list of
relevant results for a query, searchers typically scanned the length of first
result across the length of the SERP. They then scanned a lesser amount of
information for result #2 and continued in this ever-reducing pattern until
they mostly stopped scanning at all around result #5. This Golden Triangle eye
tracking and movement pattern is evident in a sample SERP from a Live Search
usability study conducted in fall, 2008.
Figure 1. Sample of the Golden Triangle eye-tracking pattern on a
SERP
The studies also noted that
searchers often change their initial queries with new or modified keywords. In
fact, only one query in four is successful. Over 50 percent of the time
searchers refine their query, go back to the SERP from a non-helpful result, or
abandon search altogether. The Bing design team considered how to work with
these consistent patterns of behavior to help search users become more
productive in their queries.
As a result of
these changes, search engine optimization (SEO) will become even more important
for you as your website is presented in the new Bing interface design.
Research showed that for 86 percent of respondents, organizing results on
the SERP to help searchers find what they were looking for was the most
important feature of a search engine. Working with this data, the Bing design
team made two big changes to their SERP:
1.
They created multiple sets of search results related to the searcher’s
original search and organized them in such a fashion that they would be easy to
scan and click. When the data is available in the index, they created
categorized subsets of related results based on search log data from past,
anonymous user searches using the new query’s keyword(s). The Bing design team
calls these pages categorized
results pages.
2.
They designed Bing to present the most frequently used category data as
entries in the upper left part of
the Explore Pane—the left hand navigation pane on the SERP. These categorized
results are presented in Quick Tab format, enabling one-click refinements.
The Explore Pane
The Bing team noted that the vast
majority of searchers completed their search using one of the top five organic
listings. By focusing searchers on the top ranked organic listings in a variety
of categories related to the keyword used in the query, the new Bing interface
presents many different but related types of content, which offers a much more
compelling and comprehensive search experience. This also gives searchers
visibility to the content of many more web publishers for the same keywords
simultaneously (many more than would have been presented in a single-threaded
SERP).
The Explore Pane is the
consistent experience throughout Bing to enable searchers to do more with their
search results in a fast and authoritative way, whether it’s refining it into a
category, expanding the query with related searches, refining an image, travel,
or shopping query, or managing search history. Like the Microsoft Office 2007
Ribbon, it highlights many of the powerful features that make Bing search
unique.
Let’s examine the elements of the Explore Pane.
Figure 2. Sample Bing SERP
Quick
Tabs
Because so many initial user
search queries required refinement, Quick Tabs attempt to anticipate the
searcher’s intent and proactively provide them with the most commonly
sought-after results at which past, similar searches ended up. The Bing team
designed the new Explore Pane to help searchers more easily navigate through
the SERP by intuitively narrowing their search results, enabling them to more
quickly to find the information they seek. The Explore Pane will reduce the
time needed to reach the information searchers intend to find.
To make the Quick Tabs data
immediately available, the new Bing SERP now shows the top ranking results for
each of those Quick Tabs items as categorized results in the SERP, just after
the initial list of the top five organic results for the query. Links beneath
each group allow the searcher to explore those lists of results in detail,
should they choose to, with just one click.
Bing develops lists of similar,
related queries that searchers are likely to be interested in based on the
results of past, anonymous user intent. Bing then ranks those lists based on
the relevance to the initial query, and shows the top categories at the top of
the Explore Pane as Quick Tabs. The function of Quick Tabs is to enable the
searcher to narrow down their initial query into a likely desirable and
intended, deeper level of specificity in just one click.
In Bing, only about 20 percent of
all search topics will present Quick Tabs. Microsoft focused the work on
developing related, categorized lists on the most commonly searched topics so
that they add value to those queries. See an example of a common search where
Bing shows Quick Tabs by searching on the
term ―Chicago‖. Bing makes a best effort guess on the searcher’s primary intent — the dominant
sense — of an ambiguous
keyword (in the case
of the term ―Chicago,‖ the
city is the
dominant sense) based
on anonymous past user searches. It
algorithmically generates the most likely desired categories list, and then
populates the Quick Tabs with content related to that dominant sense.
Figure 3. Sample Quick Tabs list for a query on ―Chicago‖
But what about
ambiguous keywords where the searcher’s intent is far from clear? The Bing team
also created a Related Searches list that represents yet another content filter
for keywords.
For
example, if the user searches
on the
word ―Chicago‖, Microsoft’s
anonymous search log data reveals
that the most dominant sense of the word relates to the city. Yet there
are still those who are looking for information about the band, the Broadway
musical, or the movie of the same name. Related Searches covers those sorts of
contingencies and more.
While searchers explore the
contents of various categorized results from the Quick Tabs, the original Quick
Tabs list remains in view so that the searcher can fully explore their subject
without losing track of their
initial query.
Lastly, in case the searcher wanders off into the woods in their explorations,
there is also a Search History list in the Explore Pane containing links to the
last five queries browsed.
The source of Quick Tabs content
isn’t limited to a single domain for its results – it is a categorized
collection of extended SERP data based on the keyword used for the query. Quick
Tabs often include vertical content (collections of like-media types, such as
images, videos, and more) in addition to related webpage links. Quick Tabs can
be useful for web publishers as they allow them to see what past searcher
intentions were for a keyword query relevant to their website’s content.
Related Searches
Whereas Quick Tabs are based on
Bing’s determination of user intent derived from anonymous data collected from
past searches, the Related Searches list is different in that it is just that,
a list of common searches related to the parent query. Related Searches is a
list of looser definitions for broadening the scope of the parent query,
whereas Quick Tabs, which are based on Bing’s analysis on common customer
intent, refines the query to a narrower subset of content. Quick Tabs and
Related Searches may occasionally appear to parallel each other, but they most
often point to very different sets of content.
Figure 4. Sample of Related Searches for the term ―Chicago‖
The Related Searches list appears
independently of whether or not there is a Quick Tabs list, and it isn’t always
present (very specific queries with multiple keywords and phrases can be so
focused that there may be no Related Searches content to display). If a Quick
Tabs list is present, the Related Searches list appears just below it in the
Explore Pane. Otherwise, Related Searches appears at the top of the Explore
Pane.
Search History
Search History
gives you one-click access to your previous queries made in a session. Studies
revealed that typical searchers repeated 24 percent of queries in a browser
session, so making this data readily available will help searchers return to
websites that are of interest to them.
The Search History list by default
always appears in the Explore Pane, underneath the Quick Tabs and Related
Searches lists (when Bing shows them for a particular query). By default,
searchers see the last five queries they made. Searchers also have the option
of seeing links to all of their past queries for that session (click See all), clearing out the history list
(click Clear all), or disabling the
Search History list (click Turn off).
Note that clicking a Related
Searches link is equivalent to running a new query, and doing so adds a new
entry to the Search History list. Clicking a Quick Tab, on the other hand,
which takes you to a categorized results list in the SERP, doesn’t affect the
Search History list.
Figure 5. Sample of Search
History generated by using Related Searches to refine an initial query of
―Chicago‖
Categorized results
Each Quick Tab entry corresponds to a categorized results list in the
main pane of the Bing SERP. For
example, when we earlier searched on the
term ―Chicago,‖ we got the Quick Tabs list as shown in Figure
3. When we
clicked on any of the Quick Tabs items, Bing took us to the corresponding
categorized results list in the SERP.
As shown in Figure 2, the top five
organic results are at the top of the SERP, followed by the collection of
categorized results lists typically showing the top three results in each as
defined in the Quick Tabs. When there is duplication of result items between
the initial, organic list and a categorized results list, Bing removes the
duplicates from the categorized results list, thereby exposing fresh, related
websites and content.
Bing doesn’t create categorized
results lists at query runtime. They are pre-defined in the index and their
contents are refreshed on a regular basis. Bing does run the duplicate removal
process at runtime, however, and that may change what’s shown in a categorized
results list versus the first five organic results, depending upon the query.
Seasonally-related categorized results content is refreshed at more frequent
intervals.
If a categorized results list takes
the searcher on a track they want to explore further, clicking either the
heading name at the top of the categorized results list or the See more results link at the bottom of
the list will expand the content shown in that categorized result list as a new
SERP. Note, however, that the Quick Tabs list stays in place, allowing
searchers to easily navigate back or further explore the topic of their initial
query.
Figure 6. Sample of a categorized results list from a search on the
term ―Chicago‖
While categorized results are
most often lists of URLs to relevant websites, they can also be dedicated to
related vertical content, such as images, videos, and the like.
Figure 7. Sample vertical categorized results from a search on the
term ―Chicago‖
Bing ranks the categorized results
lists based on a criteria list of 300+ features and is entity-dependent. For
example, not all actors will have the same Quick Tabs/categorized results sets
listed, but for improved consistency, a basic boilerplate set of categorized
results for like content exists when less primary information is available in
the index about a particular entity searched within a group.
In testing categorized results,
Bing determined that the click-through rate of categorized results was better
than was the click-through rates of organic search web rankings 6 through 10.
This means that the Bing SERPs are more efficient in helping searchers find the
content they want, and that the loss of organic listings 6-10 from the default
display isn’t as important as are the additions of the new categorized results
groups. This reinforces the value of performing SEO on your website to improve
your standings in categorized results listings so that you rank better for more
generic keyword searches. And at a minimum, an additional, deeper set of
results for searchers are only one click away.
Result
types improvements
The Bing team has done a great
deal of work beyond just reorganizing the SERP into categorized results.
Improvements to the types of results used will help the searcher more quickly
engage with the website by what is presented on the SERP. A key goal of the
team was to provide tools and exploratory links to take the searcher beyond
their initial task and go into secondary tasks (such as checking flight
information, tracking package shipping progress, software and document
downloads, etc.). Let’s take a look at how results have changed in Bing.
Standard results
Bing presents the
results listings in the SERP with three levels of confidence. The level of
confidence Bing has in the searcher’s intent determines how it presents a
result listing.
For
a result
with a
regular level of confidence, Bing
presents the standard ―blue
link‖
result, which often exposes a deep
link within a website. This is the same SERP display that most websites get
when they appear.
When possible,
Bing also presents related information about the result, such as with books or
movies, user ratings and links to reviews directly in the caption.
Figure 8. A sample, regular confidence result with a deep link,
user ratings, and reviews link
Best Match
For a very high level of
confidence, Bing presents the top ranking result in any list as a Best Match.
This allows Bing to present additional information about the subject of the
search. This additional information commonly includes displaying customer
service phone numbers, surfacing the website’s own internal search box control
(such as might be found with a major, online retailer), and deep links to
typical areas of interest for searchers within the website.
Figure 9. A sample, very high confidence result labeled Best Match
containing an internal search control
In addition to
surfacing internal search functions direction in the Best Match listing, Bing
also can surface other, site-specific special functions of the website (such as
text boxes for entering tracking numbers for cargo shipper websites). Note that
when using site-specific functions surfaced in Best Match, the result of the
site-specific function task takes the searcher to the results page on the
website rather than surfacing it in the Bing SERP.
Figure 10. A sample, very high confidence result labeled Best Match
containing a track package control
A website can
appear as either a Best Match or a standard result, depending on its relevance
to the query made.
Bing allows webmasters to update
the information provided in Best Match. If a webmaster wants to add or update data to their index entry, such
as a relevant phone number for customers (including customer service numbers
for online retailers or reservations numbers for lodging websites), links to
coupons on their website, XML sitemap, captions and titles for Flash websites,
or surface their website’s internal search control, they can contact the Bing
team through the Bing product support website. Webmasters can also
use the same link to request that Bing block certain information that is
typically shown in Best Match from displaying or even block their website from
being listed as Best Match, in which case when
their website is
listed as the first organic listing and the Bing index has a very high and
better level of confidence in that query result, the standard Bing result will
be shown.
Note that internal search boxes or
other controls that rely upon session IDs, cookies, or unusual parameters
aren’t supported by Bing in Best Match. Also note that because Bing always
derives Best Match algorithmically, webmasters cannot request this ranking.
Best Match with no
other results
When Bing has an extremely high
level of confidence in a query result, it displays the Best Match SERP, where
it presents the Best Match listing, and hides the remainder of the other,
relevant search results listings from view. However, the searcher can click the
search for other results containing
<query keyword> link to unhide the other organic results. When
relevant to appear, Bing still populates the Quick Tabs and Related Searches
lists in Best Match.
Figure 11. A sample, extremely high confidence result labeled Best
Match with additional results hidden
The Bing team chooses which sites
become Best Match results based on query volume and their confidence in when
customers are specifically looking for that website. The Bing team will
continue to increase the number of websites included as Best Match going forward.
Instant
Answers
While Instant
Answers aren’t new to Bing, their use has been enhanced in Bing. Instant
Answers can now be found in both the primary organic search results or within a
categorized results listing.
Instant Answers offer more
comprehensive information and richer results than a traditional result. Instant
Answers can provide specific answers to informational queries, such as ―who won
the super bowl‖. Other Instant Answers offer rich media and structured data
results, depending on the query, such as ―canon powershot‖ or ―rihanna‖.
Instant Answers are key access
points to the deeper vertical
experience.
Figure 12. A sample Instant Answer for the query,
―what is the weather in chicago‖
Bing also occasionally presents
Local instant answers as the Best Match result.
Caption
improvements
In addition to creating more
useful result types, the Bing team has improved upon the way result captions
are collected and presented. Their key goal for caption improvements was to
ensure that searchers are getting an accurate representation of a website
listed in the SERP so they easily find the information they are seeking.
Meeting this
goal will help webmasters with a reduction in bandwidth usage by reducing
needless bounces from SERPs. Let’s examine how captions have changed in Bing.
Document Preview
Another major
new caption improvement feature of Bing is Document Preview. Document Preview
allows searchers to instantly see content derived from the deep link page
before going to the website.
When a searcher
moves the mouse pointer over the caption, the Document Preview icon appears to
the right. When the pointer approaches the icon, the Document Preview appears
and presents more content from the page.
Figure 13. A sample SERP result with Document Preview active
Document Preview helps searchers
find the content they want faster, without leaving the SERP until they are
ready. Allowing searchers to see a sample of what’s on a page before they go to
a website will be an efficiency boon. It will equally benefit webmasters by
driving more qualified traffic from higher value customers and minimizing the
bounce rate.
Bing enables
Document Preview by default on standard caption results, except for best matches.
And because Bing generates the content in Document Preview algorithmically,
webmasters cannot affect its content at this time. However, you can choose to
disable it for your site.
Disable Document
Preview for your website’s result in the SERP
The Bing design team took into
consideration that some webmasters might not want to expose the
content of their
webpages before a searcher clicks to browse their website. As a result, they’ve allowed webmasters to disable this
feature on a per-page basis or site-wide on their websites. Here’s how:
Per page
Webmasters can insert the
following <meta> tag within the <head> tags on each HTML page for
which they want Document Preview disabled.
<meta name=“msnbot”, content=“nopreview”>
or generically for all bots,
<meta name=“robots”, content=“nopreview”>
Site-wide
For a site-wide
exclusion, or to cover non-HTML pages, such as PDF, Word, PowerPoint, video, or
plain text files, where you cannot insert meta tags and for which you want to
disable Document Preview, insert the following line in your web server’s HTTP
header:
x-robots-tag:
nopreview
Data extraction for captions
Bing culls the information shown
in Document Preview from the body content on the page and elsewhere, not just
the page’s meta data. Bing uses intelligent data extraction to display
addresses, phone numbers, and email links in Document Preview. Bing will attempt
to populate the Document Preview caption for local searches with the phone
number and street address from external sources if the data isn’t available in
the website’s pages. Bing can also use data extraction techniques to populate
the basic caption’s description snippet if necessary. Figure 14. A sample Document Preview content using data not found
on the referenced page
Many website designers use Flash
and Silverlight-based animations to display their content. Quite often these
websites don’t offer any readable meta data text, such as titles and
descriptions, in the HTML source code for the search engine bot to crawl. In
these cases, it can be very hard for the search engine to derive a useful
website description needed to populate the result caption. The Bing team found
that websites that used Flash were responsible for 21 percent of all empty
caption descriptions for queries in their index.
Bing has implemented new
technologies that can perform a limited data extraction from many of these
applications, and attempts to do so when there is no other available
information on the website for filling in the caption. As a result, Bing has
been able to update the website caption data in its index for one third of
these formerly empty-tagged, Flash-based websites.
As an example, Bing’s updated
basic caption for a sample Flash-based website is as follows.
Figure 15. A sample Bing caption for a Flash-based website
Bing examined the
site’s Flash content and extracted the data. Below is the website’s content as
shown in Flash.
Figure 16. Image of the sample, Flash-based website whose caption
is shown in Figure 1.5
The actual source
code from this site reveals that the data extracted doesn’t appear in the
website’s source code as shown below.
Figure 17. Actual source code for
Flash-based website, showing no usable meta or page data from which to derive a
caption description
When titles and/or meta descriptions
don’t exist on an HTML page, at runtime Bing creates a best-effort caption from
relevant external sources of reliable information to populate the caption with
meaningful data for the searcher. Bing, in the effort to improve searcher
experience and avoid empty captions, can even construct captions using keyword
inbound link text from external, authoritative websites to help create basic
captions where no publisher data exists.
Note, however, that the best
source for information about a website is always you, the content publisher, so
be sure to fill in this information when publishing your pages!
Skip
Flash intro link in result
Bing surfaces the
link to Skip flash intro on applicable
Flash-based websites to allow searchers to get right into the content of the
website.
Figure 18. A sample search result for Flash-based website where the ―skip flash intro‖ link
is surfaced
Page translation link
in result
Bing enables
English language users to access webpages and documents in other languages by
providing a translate this page link
in the result.
Figure 19. A sample search result of a French webpage with a ―translate this page‖ link in the
result
Clicking on the translate
this page link takes the user to the following webpage.
Figure 20. Resulting translation page as offered by Bing
Local Listings Center
The Local Listing Center is the
new Bing result for local business searches.
Figure 21. A sample local listings result as a Best Match
Clicking the Quick Tab’s listing called Local as well as the Best Match link
for Listings near <City, State> brings the searcher
to their Local Listings Center.
Figure 22. A sample Local Listings
Center webpage when Listings near
<City, State> is clicked
Enhanced Wikipedia
Bing has added Wikipedia content
directly into its index. When Bing shows a Wikipedia result in the SERP, click enhanced view to use this feature.
Within the caption for Bing-hosted Wikipedia content are major section headers
within the content page to help quickly narrow down the content search faster.
Bing doesn’t change the content
as found in Wikipedia.
Figure 23. A sample enhanced Wikipedia
result
Figure 24. A sample of Bing-hosted
Wikipedia content
Crawler changes
There have been no major changes
to the MSNBot crawler during the upgrade to Bing. However, the Bing team is
continuously refining and improving our crawling and indexing abilities. Note
that the bot name hasn’t changed. It will still show up in the web server
access logs as MSNBot. However, we have increased
the size limit of sitemaps from 10,000 URLs to 50,000 URLs, although the size
of the sitemap still shouldn't be larger than 10 MBs compressed.
Webmaster Center
There have been no major
functional changes to the Webmaster Center as part of the Bing release. Access
to the online tools still requires an authentication code. Previous
authentication codes acquired through Live Search remain valid. The name of the
file, LiveSearchSiteAuth.xml, used by Live Search to store that authentication
code at the root of the website, also remains unchanged.
Some access points to the
features of Webmaster Center have changed with Bing:
Webmaster Center.
To access Webmaster Center directly from a URL: Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/.
To access the new home of the
Webmaster Center blog: Go to
To access the new home of the
Webmaster Center forum: Go to http://www.bing.com/community/forums/default.aspx?GroupID=11.
Note that the URLs to Webmaster Center online Help topics haven’t changed
with the release of Bing.
How does Bing affect
my SEO efforts?
The new, redesigned SERP is a
major step forward in how users will think of and use search. Bing’s new
categorized results surface more content, and more relevant content, more
quickly.
Because of this new way of
thinking about search, some webmasters might initially be concerned that the
shortened primary organic listing in the new Bing SERP might render their SEO
efforts as less effective.
Instead, Bing
makes it easier to compete for broad terms because it surfaces more categories
automatically, increasing the number of results on the page and generating more
relevant content.
The most common user intent for
common keyword searches are now often presented with Quick Tabs that present
branches of the parent keyword that searchers end up looking for. This surfaces
many websites that rank highly for those keyword combinations who otherwise
wouldn’t surface highly for the parent keyword.
If anything, SEO
is all the more important as an opportunity to help your website stand out from
the crowd. In fact, well done SEO can expand your opportunities with Bing.
The Bing team discovered that the
click through rates for items in the categorized results groups were higher
than those results found in positions 6 through 10 of the initial, organic
list. Because of this, and the fact that the new, multi-threaded SERP design
surfaces many more pages that will be associated with the searcher’s primary keywords
than would have surfaced in a single-threaded SERP list, webmasters and publishers will be more likely to have searchers discover
their content with the Bing designed SERP than they would using the traditional
search model SERP.
But to take advantage of this
added exposure, webmasters will need to focus their attention on solid SEO best
practices so that their content bubbles up to the top in the new Quick
Tabs/categorized results lists in Bing. To further enhance user satisfaction as
well as surface even more publishers’ original content, Bing removes duplicate
results from categorized results lists, which allows other, lower ranked pages
to be shown in the categorized results on its SERP.
What do I need to do
for SEO with Bing?
All of the benefits from these
enhancements are available to websites that invest in SEO. Webmasters can help
their websites get more visitor traffic by helping Bing best represent their
content to searchers in our SERPs. Webmasters can easily do this by adding
unique titles and meta descriptions to each page. If webmasters don’t provide
search engines with good, keyword-oriented, well-written caption source data,
the resulting captions created by algorithm, no matter how hard we try, won’t
represent your website as well as those websites whose webmasters did provide
this unique and important data.
The use of consistent data
structures between pages on your website (such as placing similar data between
pages using a similar tree structure, similar class names, support standard
markup technologies, such as microformats,
etc.) will also help improve the effectiveness of our crawler, which puts more
of your content into our index. Submitting your sitemap to Bing if your website
is new, has been substantially changed, or has added any new rich media
content, is also very helpful. You can submit your sitemap.xml file via the
Sitemap tool in Webmaster Center or directly from your browser’s address
bar by typing the following:
Be sure to include the full URL
for your website’s sitemap.xml file at the end of this line.
However, there’s
no need to resubmit your sitemap to Bing if Live Search previously indexed your
website and there have been no recent changes on your website.
Performing SEO for clear and
high-quality page content also benefits searchers who will use Document
Preview. When the standard captions are shown (derived from good SEO practices
of creating unique title and meta description tags, which help Bing improve your
rank to relevant keyword phrases) and one of
yours piques the searcher’s
interest, the searcher can now quickly do a deeper dive by using Document
Preview to be sure the content they are seeking is actually available on your
website. This benefits webmasters by driving more highly qualified traffic to
them, making costly bandwidth usage far more efficient by reducing SERP
bounces, and ultimately driving higher levels of customer satisfaction.
Best of all, the type of SEO work
and tasks webmasters need to perform to be successful in Bing haven’t
changed—all of the skills and knowledge that webmasters have invested in
previously applies fully today with Bing. Moreover, investments in solid,
reputable SEO work made for Bing will bring similar improvements in your
website’s page rank in Google and Yahoo! as well.
Ultimately, SEO is
still SEO. Bing doesn’t change that. Bing’s new user interface design simply
adds new opportunities to searchers to find what the information they want more
quickly and easily, and that benefits webmasters who have taken the time to work
on the quality of their content and website design.
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