This is a problem stemming back ages with no satisfactiry resolution under the 'old' Microsoft system. I was hoping for a resolution to this. I run UK only websites with .co.uk domains. Two examples are www.trucklocator.co.uk and www.vanlocator.co.uk Microsoft insist that they are aware of this and may fix it in the future. In the meantime I am receiving zero from the search as they only come up in US searches.
Please, please, please can we have a fix for this?
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Yes! I think this is a very useful feature. A vote for this.
Yes, this is needed, as many European users host in the US.
Ok all looking for same features in bing.com
need this urgently
Yes i am eager to see this types of features in bing.
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Hi vanMan,
I noticed this in your homepage header for both sites:
<meta http-equiv='Content-Language' content='en-us' />We recomend using the language meta tag if you are having region/market issues; however, you are telling us your region is here in the states. Try switching that to 'en-uk' and see what happens.
@all
We are working to design a better solution, but right now using the meta tag has worked for many. Just don't forget to include your language code and country code.
~B
*I no longer work for Bing.
Hi, I just tried the above suggestion and report back if it works. I guess I will need to waited until the cache gets updated.
Thanks Brett - your suggestion seems to be working - as the site is gradually recrawled.
Thanks Brett We made the change and trucks for sale site www.trucklocator.co.uk is starting to show some GB pages, but used vans site www.vanlocator.co.uk is showing no signs. I'll keep you posted.
The Van Man
Thanks Brett - Same here, it's working.
Is the Content-Language meta tag sufficient on just the index page - or something that should be done on all of a site's pages?
If you have a header of
<html xml:lang="en-GB">will that be enough, or do you still need to meta http-equiv='Content-Language'?
Alot of people worked very hard for years to define and standardize Meta Tags, their format and usage. One that I've been using is <meta name="geo.region" content="US" /> on all my sites for search engines and spiders that care to honor them.
There are even more explicit location and GPS standard meta tags that can indicate right down to longitude and latitude of a location -- but what good does it do? The baby pretty much got thrown out with the bathwater after abuses of the <meta keyword="...> tag got so much abuse from stuffing.
With both Localization, and Globalization on the forefront of commerce -- and the need for site owners to target their customers -- there really needs to be a respected standard that meets the needs of the Big Three search engines, surfers and site owners. All stand to benefit.
Get this right Bing -- and you'll have it all over the competition.
I do not know why Bing is giving too much importance to content='en-us'; it should shift its focus to the domain name extension which clearly shows that its targeted market is UK.
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