Written by Mark Cijo – Original Post Is Here.

Microsoft launched its new polished version of Windows Live search named Bing. How to do SEO for Bing is a question asked by most of the SEO experts and I thought it is the right time to share my observation on SEO for Bing. What do I need to do for SEO with Bing ? SEO for Bing is not at all a tough task as it was for Live search. The new spider algorithm gives more importance to certain signals to get SERP. For the best SEO for Bing you can count on the following points and make sure you follow the guidelines.

Unique Title Tag:  Bing gives lot of importance for keywords in the title tag. Make sure you have the primary keyword for that particular page in the caption in form of a Meta title tag. If you don’t provide search engines with good, keyword-oriented, well-written caption source data, the resulting captions created by algorithm, no matter how hard Bing try, won’t represent your website as well as those websites whose webmasters did provide this unique and important data.

The usage of consistent data structures between pages: Placing similar data between pages using a similar tree structure, similar class names, support standard markup technologies, such as microformats, etc will help improve the effectiveness of the bing crawler, which puts more of your content into our index.
Submitting your sitemap to Bing: You need to submit your sitemap in XML format if your website is new to Bing, or if you have made any changes to the web pages or added any new product. You can submit your sitemap.xml file via the Sitemap tool in Webmaster Center or directly from your browser’s address bar by going to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.mysite.com/sitemap.xml
Make  sure to include the full URL for your website’s sitemap.xml file at the end of this line. If your website is already present in windows live search and you haven’t made any changes recently you can skip this.
Robot files: Make sure that you have a robots.txt file in your website and it allows Bing spider to index the important pages of your website.
Clean HTML Code with W3C Validation: A clean validated code as per the W3C standards will help your website crawl faster by the Bing Spider. You need to make sure that all the open tags are closed, use proper image alt tags and Code Headers. Validate it using W3C Validator.

Check for Broken Links: Make sure that all your links are valid and have no broken or inactive links. This will help spiders from crawling the web page effectively.
Always use Static URLS: Bing loves static html URLs. Dynamic URL’s are not easily crawled by Bing, it takes more time when you have the Dynamic URLs. Use URL rewrite and have it simple with the keyword in the URL. This has proven better results.
SEO for Bing is now same as SEO for Google. All the tactics that works well for Google and Yahoo still go in par with SEO for Bing.
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.

Original Post is Here.

Search Engine Bing might not be a straightaway success in the US according to Statscounter but the picture is altogether more positive in the UK says research firm Hitwise.

Although one has to be cautious about using one set of data to read a pattern, Hitwise has drawn up a rather compelling picture of the state of Bing in the UK. And the picture looks rather pretty.

The launch of Bing did not appear to have an adverse effect either on Yahoo or Ask. Both stayed almost stable at around 2.32 and 1.69 percent respectively of UK internet visits.

In fact, from the figures provided by Hitwise, one can see that the amount of internet visits up to 73 hours after launched climbed to around 11 percent, more than 3 times the combined market share of Ask and Yahoo.

But it fell down significantly to 3.15 percent. Google is still the biggest player out there by far. Apart from becoming temporarily the eighth most visited website in the UK, Bing users actually spent a significant amount of time on the website per visit at eight and a half minutes.

Hitwise notes that it is still half of Google UK’s number but only a tad below what Yahoo achieves. So people are coming to use the website rather than just browsing around.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has already hinted that this would be a long lasting battle and said that it is naive to expect Bing to better its rivals quickly, adding “It’s going to take us a while, it’s a five-year task”.

About the Author

Marty Collins, is the developer of a proprietary web optimization system that maximizes web ranking and usuability. He is an entreprenuer and owner of GooglePageOne.Org and several companies that get you to the top in Google and BING. Contact him at mcollins@googlepageone.org OR Seo-Bing.com