If you have been neglecting to optimize your site to rank well in Bing it is time that you do. Even though Google is still the number one choice for millions of people worldwide Bing’s popularity has been on an upward climb.
Webmasters who would like to get a jump start and have their sites fully optimized for Bing so that they could have their sites in the top positions and get more traffic. With that in mind here are at few tips for getting your site placed at the top.
Pay Attention To Webpage Titles
Include proper titles for your webpage and insert concise keywords that appropriately describe the content of each page. Make sure that the titles are a good representation of your page content.
Age of Domain and Pages
Bing has an affinity for older domains and pages. This means that if your domain is older and has more authority then you stand a good chance of having your domain placed on the first page of the results. Even though nobody knows how long this factor would remain relevant you should look for aged domains instead of registering a new name if you want to rank in Bing.
Lengthen Your Content
Bing it seems prefers more text so the more that your write the better you rank. Instead of sticking to posts that are 300 words or less write a few extra short paragraphs to improve your appeal to this search engine.
Keyword Rich Metas
Include your main keywords in the meta description, title tags, keywords, URLs and internal anchor texts. Paying attention to your meta tags can get you ranked in all major search engines.
Simple and Static URLs Work Best
Aside from being easier to bookmark o call to memory simple and static URLs are much easier for search engines to ndex. This is especially important factor when it comes to Bing’s search engine.
Check Your Site Regularly For Broken Links
Do manual inspections of your site from time to time to locate and repair any broken links since these would affect the way that your site is indexed by Bing.
Link Out To Other Relevant Websites
You can freely link out to other websites without being affected with Bing. In fact it seems to be favorable to the search engine. That said, pay attention to your number of outgoing links or use the nofollow tags so that you do not compromise your Google rankings.
Good luck,
Vic Carrara
MasterWebSoftware.com
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