Microsoft Bing adds 3 new shopping annotations
Microsoft Bing has recently added three notations to its search results pages that show price history, available coupons and ethical choice ratings.
Price history. Bing shows a graph showing whether…
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3 content marketing strategies to support SEO success
“When we think about success, we often think about ranking on the first page of Google,” said Jon Lightfoot, founder and CEO of Strategic SEO Solutions, in a recent webinar. “But beyond ranking , there’s something more , which is ranking…
Microsoft Bing drops anonymous sitemap submission due to spam issues
Microsoft Bing will no longer accept XML sitemaps that were submitted anonymously through HTTP requests, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced today. The reason Bing will no longer allow anonymous sitemap submission is due to abuse…
Bingbot user-agent change coming in the Fall of 2022
In 2019, Microsoft Bing announced new Bingbot user-agent names that fit better with its evergreen Bingbot crawling and rendering service. Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel has now said that by the Fall of 2022 the old user-agent will stopped being…
Bing’s Ethical Shopping hub expands to U.S., Canada
Microsoft Bing’s Ethical Shopping hub is now available in the U.S. and Canada. It launched in December, but only in the UK.In addition, the hub has a new design and the experience can be triggered when people search for relevant queries in…
A tale of two search engines
Messy SEO is a column covering the nitty-gritty, unpolished tasks involved in the auditing, planning, and optimization of websites, using MarTech’s new domain as a case study.This installment of “Messy SEO” details my process of working…
Bing’s ‘Russian invasion of Ukraine’ results show Opinions section and timelines
Microsoft Bing’s search results for queries related to the conflict in Ukraine show an Opinions section and two timelines (one in the main column and another in the knowledge panel).
Microsoft Bing’s search results page…
SEOPress WordPress plugin adds IndexNow support
Microsoft announced that IndexNow is now also supported by another WordPress plugin named SEOPress. This gives another 200,000 sites that are using this plugin easy access to enable IndexNow on their WordPress sites.…
IndexNow integrations grow as Bing says ‘millions’ of sites are using it
Microsoft made a few announcements this week on the Bing webmaster blog around more software providers adding support for IndexNow leading to millions of sites using IndexNow since its launch in October 2021. Part of…
How marketers can create a holistic search strategy
Organic and paid search channels are huge sources of traffic for websites (roughly 68%), yet few marketing teams know how to align the tactics, insights and goals of both effectively. This is why so many search…