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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

Written by Bena Roberts – Original Post Is Here.

I took a look at Alexa this morning and Bing was on the home page showing the most amazing spike in traffic ever.  So, I put in a query for bing.com vs yahoo.com vs google.com.

The chart below shows the results – Yahoo and Google still lead but Bing is coming up and up.  Its strategy of advertising on competitors sites has worked.

In fact, advertising BING on Google and Yahoo is a great way of instantly getting to the top of search engines. The clicks will effect competitors algorithms and make Bing a stronger brand overnight. On top of that organic traffic will be built when click throughs instantly become account users – from the competitor portals. Time on the site and weight vs distribution of the ads will also improve Bing’s SEO instantly.

Written by Bena Roberts – Original Post Is Here.