For any business, claiming an account inside our Webmaster Tools allows access to a lot of useful information. SEO Reports, link data (for your site and other sites), ranking information, keyword traffic data and so much more. Yet even all this usefulness comes with a limit. We could only show you data related to the websites you own or controlled. Today, however, we’re releasing the Connected Pages feature within Bing Webmaster Tools...
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Often you won’t know the quality of work to expect from an "SEO Expert" until you’ve already paid the bills, and the results simply fail to show up. In some cases, however, it’s a bit more obvious. Below is a solicitation email I received this week to my personal email address. An email address this company did not possess because I shared it with them, which means they either scraped the email from somewhere, or have...
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Well, not really, but maybe you could argue that that asteroid was a kind of “mobile”. And while those creatures would have been powerless to change their fate – extinction – today’s businesses are much better equipped to survive, if they take prudent and timely action. Which leads to the question… Are You Ignoring Mobile? We are hear the chatter about how important mobile is. But are you taking any action...
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Actually, there is more than just one rut, in reality. It’s more like a collection of ruts. It’s CRS. Cultural Rut Syndrome. And it’s when your business is making decisions based on “culture”, “history” or “process” instead of on, say, data, customer feedback or from the results of testing. Oh, sure, everyone likes to brag up how they do A/B testing, how they have guidelines for content...
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In the wake of the release of Windows 8.1 we are releasing a new tool inside Bing Webmaster Tools that helps web publishers manage the page previews that are shown in one of 8.1’s new features: Bing Smart Search. Using the Page Preview tool, which you can find in the Configure My Site section, you can now view, block, or a refresh of the page preview image shown for a given page on your website in the Bing Smart Search results. Bing...
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Social is all about sharing.  For businesses, the toughest part is figuring out how to encourage more sharing.  How to actually make that step happen. The obvious first step is positioning of the sharing options.  Place them out of the way and visitors simply won’t see them or won’t take the action. If you allow the human mind to *think* something is work, it’ll avoid it as if it was work. Making me look for a way...
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Video sitemaps or video mrss feeds can be submitted via Bing Webmaster Tools. This can be done either directly from the Sitemap widget on the webmaster Dashboard or from within the Sitemaps feature. We support various video feed or sitemap formats. See this blog post for details. Processing sitemaps can take from a few hours up to a few days. If you have questions you can email at bingfeed@microsoft.com. How To Submit Sitemaps From Bing...
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Consumers are looking for local information. As a business owner, how do you earn not only the attention, but the business of today’s digitally savvy consumers? At Bing, we are always looking for ways to simplify your experience of managing your business online, and help increase the discoverabilityof your business by millions of users.   The launch of Bing Places for Business in the UK and Canada is the first of many steps in our...
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[not provided] got ya down? Feeling blue because your analytics won’t share data with you? Worried about decisions because of data prohibitions? Well, I’d love to tell you to not worry about it, but it’s the reality today. It’s the new norm and we have to roll with it. And it can pose challenges, no doubt. But is it the “end”? Hardly. Like so many times in the past, it simply means that SEOs need to get creative...
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Business owners who sign up for a Webmaster Tools account to analyze their SEO, check links and view reports can receive a credit for their search advertising on Bing Ads. Now we’ve extended this promotion outside of the US & Canada to France, Germany and the UK. Values are aligned for each country where the offer is applied (so the offer is $50 USD or equivalent in your location). There are also standing offers for Canada and the US in...
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