Comments on: Bing UK search engine

By: Peter Kulej

Peter Kulej — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:53:02 +0000

Hi mate (mate? don’t know who you are so just calling you mate) Hello Peter, my names’ Kennie, pleased to meet you A coupla (coupla? couple of? just helping you out) haha things regarding my last comment. First of all don’t know how about Falkirk but in Aberdeenshire people don’t do stupid comments on words like ‘webbie’ if it’s obvious what the word means. Not to us non-Aberdonians it’s not, but I take your point, I was a bit cheeky Secondly - you don’t really expect a restaurateur to perform a full research on a domain that is available on the market and happens to be perfect match for the name of his business? Well actually, I do. It seems like common sense to me and it takes two minutes. Even if the restaurant owner is not web-savvy, surely his designer or SEO would do the check for him? See if you’d as brilliant as you think you are you would figure things out. I make no claim to brilliance, but if the cap fits… I don’t know the name of the restaurant you are referring to, but if it’s baysbistro.net, which doesn’t appear to be in Aberdeenshire, but is based in Whitley Bay, your likely issue is that it’s made up of images and PDFs, (even the text is part of the image), so there is no content for the search engine spiders to read, as they can’t read content in images. Change the index page to standard text and optimise it a bit and you may well see results. I suspect it’s not this website that you are referring to, as this wasn’t owned by a Dutch sex site before you owned it, as you stated in your last comment. Be happy! BM

By: Peter Kulej

Peter Kulej — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:05:06 +0000

My friends website is now 13months old, ranks pretty well in google, crucial keywords place in the first couple of pages on google and other search engines. Apart from binhoo (Who? - do you mean Bing or Yahoo - or both?) which wouldn't index their website and cannot be bothered about their sitemap. (XML?) I know the webbie (Webbie? website??) used to be own by some Dutch company selling sex enhancing drugs or something like that, but now it's a Greek restaurant - you could spot some difference. The website got unblocked by google within couple of weeks of new lease, one email explaining that it has new owner and normal content did the job. Binhoo? Well they must be really busy working for two companies cause they cannot be bother even to answer one's email. I know it takes ages for bihoo to index pages but complete lack of customer support sucks big time. I guess there's a lesson here; Don't buy a "Webbie" from a company selling sex enhancing drugs, change it to being a restaurant and expect it to appear on "Binhoo" :).

By: EricT

EricT — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:43:03 +0000

Small sites do really well on google and yahoo! (which is soon to be powered by bing, heaven help us). I can get #1 position in searches for “sarmouni” and “Idries Shah successor” and yet hardly show at all in bing. Looks like they’re after authoritative backlinks and these are hard to come by for the “little people”.

With the greatest respect Eric and not wishing to be rude in any way, Sarmouni and Idries Sha successor are very simple keywords. All you need to do is repeat the term Sarmouni, Idries Sha and the search term, Idries Sha Successor three times on a page of content, stick in a page title something like: Idries Shah, writer, Sufi teacher - Idries Shah successor - Sarmouni, and you would be on the front page of Google in ten minutes. Your issue with Bing isn’t lack of links, it’s twofold: your site is a sub-domain, which Bing won’t rank highly in their algorythm and your site is down more often than it is up. I would suggest you buy Idriesshasuccessor.com and have it professionally hosted, on a reliable host, optimise the page and Bing will rank your website.

By the way, I completely agree with your Yahoo and Bing comment Eric - god help us! BM

By: Duncan

Duncan — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:30:28 +0000

Our website appears in second position on the first page of Google UK for the search term “foam moulders”
We are a UK company but have a .com domain name. In Bing for the same search term, foam moulders, again we are in second position on first page for “show all” but we dont appear anywhere for the “Only from United Kingdom” results!
Come on Bing! just because we dont have a .co.uk name doesn’t mean we are not a UK company!

I couldn’t agree with you more Duncan. I’m not sure what a foam moulder is, but I’m heading of to your site just now to check it out! Just had a look and noticed you only have the term foam moulders appearing once on the page as a phrase. If foam moulders is an important term for you, Try re-arranging tyour sentances so you can add two more instances of the term on the page and take out a singular instance of foam. It could be enough for you to move one or two places up Google ranking for the term. BM

By: Rob Abdul

Rob Abdul — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:42:30 +0000

I don’t think that Bing will be successful until Microsoft sort out their indexing issues. For example, sites that have almost all their pages indexed in Google have barely 20% indexed in Bing.Therefore Bing is not seeing most of the web.
I wish Microsoft would sort this out - they have millions at their disposal and the brightest people working for them.
Lovin your blog Rob! BM