The holiday season has passed. The first major holiday of the year (Valentine’s Day) is in the rear-view mirror. PPC advertisers can finally catch a break. Well, that is unless you’re in the travel industry! Now is the time to begin preparing for the many families who are already searching for vacation round 2. With […]
Bing Moves Into Conversational Search
Google made a big splash when they announced they were moving into conversational search and now Bing has announced that they too will be doing the same. “For all kinds of searches, Bing lets you ask a question the way you would ask a friend,” says Yan Ke, Principal Development Lead, Bing Relevance Team. “For […]
Bing Index Quality Team Plans Increased Webmaster Communications
In a brave move, Igor Rondel from the Bing Index Quality team has a new blog post where they admit they need to do a better job at communicating with webmasters. Now, they aim to make this change with more frequent announcements from their team about changing and insights, in addition to what webmasters hear […]
State of the Industry – Real SEOs Solve Problems
The most important is the one we’ve foisted on ourselves. Search engine optimization has an ongoing reputation problem. SEO has always been a controversial practice. There’s an air of manipulation inherent in SEO which is similar to the air of manipulation around other forms of prominence marketing. Though professional SEO is really about clarity, many […]
Bing Features… Pandas on the Homepage
If you go to Bing’s homepage, chances are you will have a chuckle over the featured homepage image. Just a coincidence (and especially on the heels of Matt Cutts’ Leave from Google), but the homepage of Bing is sporting a Panda casually munching on some bamboo in an animated homepage image. When you mouseover some […]