How to get your website found in Bing

Bing has been going for two months, and here's what I've found analysing my own sites and those of others:

1. Bing doesn't like blogspot - not even blogs over 3 years old with decent pagerank on Google (pagerank 4) and about 20,000 backlinks according to Yahoo's siteexplorer. You will find some blogspots in Bing's results - but buried deep eg on page 6 or higher. There are exceptions - some blogs with a serious amount of high quality backlinks feature on Bing's first page, but if you are an ordinary blogger with an average amount of backlinks, you will struggle.

2. Squidoo lenses - the only lens I've got which has had a hit from Bing is one that has a Google pagerank of 3 (i.e. it has decent backlinks) and the hits were paltry - didn't make double figures in a month. Again it is in Bing's index, but buried deep.

3. Hubpages. This has been my biggest success on Bing. Am getting a regular stream of hits on one hub, which is a Google pagerank 3 (i.e. decent backlinks), and fewer hits on other hubs that are in niches that don't have much materia/competition, and also hubs that have outgoing links to authority sites (such as the Financial Times). Bing seems to approve of authority outgoing links.

Update 8th Aug 2009

Haven't found many Wordpress blogs in Bing either. I don't think Bing likes blogs, they seem to prefer static websites, possibly because it's easier for their bot to crawl.

Have also found a neat tool called Bingle, which displays Google and Bing results side by side for whichever keyword you enter. It's certainly an eye-opener - they both display relevant results, but they choose very different pages. Read Full Article;

How to get your website found in Bing

If anyone has any other information to add based on their experience, please post in the comments.

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