It makes you want to crawl under a rock. The day your boss comes to you and says “We’re looking at a new domain name. Can you help us move to it?” Worse are the days like that which pass you by because no one ever came to you, and it’s...

Animal kingdom hurting ROI? Pandas and penguins, oh my! Take control and tell the fauna "Bye Bye", With these helpful suggestions to diversify! In short, it’s time to fear nothing when building your website. Every business has decisions to make...

This week we’re going to take a quick look at four features which often go unused by websites. Not exactly sure why this is, as they’re very useful, and at times, critical. Still, we see folks time and again who open an account, verify their...

If you are reading this column, there is a good chance you publish quality content to your web site, which you would like to get indexed by Bing. Usually, things go smoothly: BingBot visits your web site and indexes your content, which then appears in...

At Bing, we have to crawl and index The Internet and The Internet is pretty big. One common question that Fabrice Canel, a veteran of search here, is commonly asking people is to figure out how big the Internet is? How many URLs are out-there? The answers...

Feeds allow Bing to easily learn about the videos on your website. The purpose is to help Bing include your video content in the Bing index, which may not have otherwise been discovered by Bing's web content crawlers. Submitting a feed provides you with...

Late last week I bumped into David Flink , one of our Lead Program Managers here at Bing and after a brief chat, he agreed to write this week's blog post detailing a view on implementing paganation solutions. He's even agreed to field questions, so feel...

Last week I participated in an #seochat. One comment that someone took exception with was the idea of how "authority" is defined. Essentially, this person took exception with the notion that to be seen as an authority, you need to maintain a healthy follower...

Keyword research tool Our organic keyword research tool is live and a great way to do keyword research. What makes this tool different is the data source. Instead of pulling from the paid advertising side and their attendant tools, we’ve built ours...

As with so many things in life, perspective is important. On the surface it’s easy to say Bing likes SEO. But what does this actually mean? Do we actually care whether you have clean URLs, H1 tags and properly written meta descriptions? Sure we...

The last couple of weeks have been busy here at Bing. For those who may have missed these great reading opportunities, I wanted to take a minute to call out two items worth spending some time with. First up, the interview Eric Enge over at Stone Temple...

Today the Web is accessible almost everywhere. Our PC, laptops, tablets, smartphones and more allow us to access content anywhere, anytime. This also means there is a need to show content in many ways, optimized to different environments. A common SEO...

We're at SMX West this week, just in time to announce a couple of new tools/features for webmasters around the world. Remember all those Birds-of-a-feather lunch chats last year? Those tweets you sent me? The surveys we sent out? Well, we've been busy...

I don't mean "in your hands" as in on your smartphone, as an app, etc. "In your hands" here means under your control. Putting the power with the people, though I admit that an app would be super cool for this feature. Hmmm..... What we've covering in...

Four easy ways to make sure your content gets in, or back in, to the Bing index. URL/Domain submit - submit your domain to us if you have a new website. Submit URL feature inside Bing Webmaster Tools, under the Index tab Reinclusion request support via...