Bing Too Easy To Rank Well In?
A funny WebmasterWorld thread has an SEO scratching his head in wonderment as to how he ranks so well in Bing, without really having any SEO reason to be. Let me quote what he said:
Right now my two-month-old site, with NO backlinks established but good internal content and linking (not SEO'd, just logically laid out), is #1 in Bing for a term that surprised the heck out of me... related, yes, but seriously American Express or Mastercard or any number of established entities should be #1 on these terms. They are #2 and #3.At first I thought it was maybe some kind of local thing... that those companies are nowhere near me, but my site IS near me and therefore it's showing local relevant results first? But nope, if I remote into a server in a datacenter on the other side of the country and run a search from there it's #1 there too. Crazy...
In Google, the site is half way down page 3 for the same term, about where I expected it would be given its age and competition.
I'm certainly not going to call up Bing and complain about it, but it's freakin weird.
I was hoping, like for me, the thread would make you smile after a long week.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
Like The Story? Vote For It On Yahoo Buzz! Or On Sphinn!
rustybrick in Microsoft MSN Search at January 29, 2010 8:00 AM
Comments (3)
Sphinn 
• Tweet This! 
• Digg 
• Delicious 
• StumbleUpon 
• Google Co-op 
Comments
On the flipside, I've seen websites that rank well in Google fair rather poorly on Bing.
That said, I don't think ranking in Bing is any easier. It's a new SE, it's different, and we're still trying to wrap our heads around how to cater our sites to it. Sometimes it does funny things (as in this case) and we don't really know why.
Posted by Andy M. at January 29, 2010 10:52