The Bing Search Engine Is Worth Our Time

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The only images that came up when I went looking for an image for the Bing search engine were of Bing cherries. Welll, they are ripe for the plucking, and the search engine has some of those qualities too.

Are you paying any attention to where your blog pages and posts turn up in Bing? The idea of writing about this popped into my head after I read an article about a new Bing url inspection tool.

Before you do anything else, Kyle has a training on how to get set up with Bing's webmaster tools. Here is Kyle's training, in a 12-minute video.

https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/setting-up-a-bing-w...

Well, I had set this up for my sites back in 2016. I've added three new sites to my collection since then.

What I Learned Today

I discovered these things:

I had never gone back to Bing to tell it about my three new sites. They found my author site but they hadn't found a couple of small sites that I have done very little with. These are not siterubix sites.

As I've blogged before, a few weeks ago I moved one of my largest sites to WA hosting. I knew that pages were loading faster than when I had it at a previous webhost, one that is generally considered very good. I was quite pleased to see that the two lines below, representing clicks and impressions, had jumped up nicely after I moved. You can't see the numbers of clicks or impressions, as I deliberately left them off when I copied the image. Hey, some things are private!

But I can tell you that I found this chart under Search Performance, with the name of the website chosen from the list in the upper left of the Bing page. A good reason to move sites to WA, I'd say. I'm planning to move them all sooner or later... this chart is a motvation to do it sooner. I assume it's because the site is loading way faster. We know that the search engines like that.


Something else you can do is find SEO errors. Here is an example from a small site of ours which my husband recently updated.

This is a little hard to read here, but you can get the general idea.

Bing's New URL Inspection Tool

This was the thing that got me started on Bing today. When you are in the webmaster page at Bing, near the end of the list of things on the left, it says "URL Inspection" and then it says BETA. I put a post in from my author site. It told me that the title was too long and that the meta description wasn't there. I can see a bit of work for me here, going through my sites and fixing things. Also, I noticed that the errors it caught on that page did not show up in the SEO Report for that site, like the one I pasted above.

One thing I read and haven't tried yet is that you can use that URL inspection tool on sites you are working on in siterubix that have not yet gone live. This could be very handy for preparing a site for the big world.

You may know that Bing search results are used in Yahoo. But one point worth making here is that even though Google does its own searching, the things that Bing is telling me about above really should be fixed for better effects in Google too. Also, it's worth knowing that Bing webpages get about 10% of the searches that Google does, when you combine the numbers for Bing and Yahoo. So it's not the big G but it's still well worth your time and mine.

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Good to know. I just never use Bing although I used to use Yahoo a lot before the Big G came onboard. Thanks for your insight on this search engine.

~Debbi

I appreciate your post and you sharing today! John

Thank you very much for the wonderful information 🌹

Hi Rosana, I kind of like Bing and make it a point to visit them on a regular basis. Thank you for the share.

Best wishes,
Michael

Im planning to use them a lot more for a while and see what I think.

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