Live Search Webmaster Center Latest search engine news blog articles from Live Search Webmaster Center. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Live+Search+Webmaster+Center.html Live Search Webmaster Center News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=57492 Earlier this week, folks using their Bing Webmaster Tools would have noticed a new tool slipped into the mix. On the "Crawl" tab, you can now find a link to the Markup Validation Tool. This tool is a great way to understand if the added code is actually going to be readable, as intended. While the markup code being inaccurate will not cause your page to render any differently in most cases, having the syntax incorrect can affect our ability to use the data as you intend. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:39:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56913 Whether you've decided to move your website to a new domain or you're moving content within a current website, its important to know how to protect the trust value your current content has with the engines. Over time, links get built, content ages and aquires trust. You don't want to walk away from that if you can help it. Why start over when most of that value can be transfered to the content's new location? The solution to your problem is the 301 redirect. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:36:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=56508 It's conference season again, and we're looking forward to see folks at the shows again this year! If you're planning to attend either the SMX West event, or the SES NY event, here are discount codes for each event. SMX West : SMX10Bing will snag you a 10% discount SES NY : 20Bing will snag you 20% off If you want to hear what we have to say, we encourage you to join us at the following sessions. SMX West - booth #406 Feb. 28 - 9AM - 10:15AM Getting Personal, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:04:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55926 As you go about working on your websites, optimizing things and managing your social media programs, its easy to lose track of information, or overlook something. In this post well take a look at some things you want to avoid doing. It may also be worth taking a look through your site and your programs to make sure youre not doing any of these things moving forward. Cloaking Cloaking is the process where you determine who the visitor is coming to your website, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 13 Jan 2012 07:08:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=55035 Ever wonder whats behind the merging of social signals into search? Not too long ago, all SEOs had to worry about were the old standbys: title tags, links, content, etc. Today, and in the future, social signals play a larger part in ranking, so whats an SEO to do? Why its happening This is fairly easy to explain. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 22 Dec 2011 19:19:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=54354 2011 is almost in the history books, so now seems like a great time to take a look back over the year and remember what weve been up to here at Bing Webmaster Tools. First hand its easy to see how quickly a year can slip by. Being inside a search engine is an amazing place, and this year saw solid growth for our Webmaster program. We covered a lot of ground attending conferences all around the US, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:57:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53679 When building or managing a website, it almost goes without saying that you need to be in control. You need to be able to make changes to certain elements if you home to optimize the website properly. Lets take a look at nine items you should be sure are firmly within your control when you start optimizing a website. And were not just talking search engine optimization here. Think broader than that. Think of truly building a better, more useful website, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 29 Nov 2011 23:46:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=53004 Malware. Just mention the word and watch people cringe in fear. No one likes it and most seek to even avoid saying the word out loud, lest they be stricken by something nefarious. The topic should not be taken lightly, as getting infected with malware can have dire consequences. From your brand being tarnished to identity theft, nothing involving malware is a joke. Which is why its taken so seriously by the search engines. In fact, youll notice, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:42:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=52599 Weve spent the better part of a year now hitting the shows, running surveys and holding focus groups. Along with the information we captured direct from the webmaster community through those sources, there is the daily flow of inbound suggestions and, yes, items needing to be fixed, that we can draw insights from. Today were rolling out the latest features and updates, most of which come directly from user feedback. You spoke, we listened, worked and are now delivering. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:36:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=52372 Everyone wants to be an authority. Everyone wants to be acknowledged for their, well, knowledge. Everyone wants the increased ranking and traffic that comes when an engine sees you as an authoritative resource. But so few actually plan a path to success, thinking instead that blasting everything they find across Twitter and auto-following everyone will boost their numbers and get them recognized as an authority. Lets take a look at what it really takes, shall we. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 28 Oct 2011 22:10:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=51775 Dictionary.com shares this meaning of syndication (see #8) when used as a verb: to publish simultaneously, or supply for simultaneous publication, in a number of newspapers or other periodicals in different places : Her column is syndicated in 120 papers . In most cases, being syndicated is seen as a positive thing. Youve hit the big time, youre in demand, people what to hear from you. All good signs youve made it. Naturally syndicated content on the Internet, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 14 Oct 2011 17:15:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=51441 Almost every website will reach a point when they need to implement redirects. Whether its because you moved content around, or youre moving to a new domain, redirects can help you keep the traffic flowing, pass the value URLs have been assigned by the engines and help keep bookmarks working for your loyal visitors. You dont need to fear implementing redirects, but you should understand which is best to use and their limitations. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:30:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=51167 With social playing such an important role today in your overall online marketing efforts, its important to get things right the first time. As the old saying goes, first impressions matter. Getting a do-over in todays face-paced online business environment is tough, especially when everything you do is recorded, archived and essentially available to anyone willing to search almost forever. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Sat, 01 Oct 2011 16:27:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49864 With our very busy lives, its easy to be tempted to engage in tactics that would seem to create efficiencies for us. Signing up for, or paying for services which appear to take the pain out of critical tasks like managing your social program properly, or building links to your content may seem like a smart move, but be warned. You may be setting yourself up to fail in the long run. What is a link farm? Simply put, a link farm is a service which builds links to your content. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:34:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49447 Let's take a look at some of the bigger ticket issues folks should focus on when optimizing their websites. This list is not meant to cover everything, but to focus in on some of the more important aspects you should look at addressing. The first part of this list is presented in a rough order of importance based on getting work done. In many case, you'll find your own circumstances won't allow your focus and investments to match this list. Don't sweat it. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:49:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49213 Bing Webmaster Tools will now be showing integrated data from Yahoo within certain areas and reports. Given the combined effort the Search Alliance represents, it makes sense to showcase relevant data from both engines within a webmaster account. Most areas and data within the accounts will not be affected. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 16 Aug 2011 16:00:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49173 Waking up to find your website, or portion of it, has been removed from a search index can be a perplexing and frightening experience. What if you could help reduce that risk by restricting access to sensitive areas of webmaster tools, and render them read only for assigned individuals? Bings Webmaster Tools places exactly that kind of control within reach. By managing user access levels, you can control who has full access as an Admin, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:35:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=49046 Join us at SES San Francisco and SMX East! Bing Webmaster , and other Bing groups such as Maps , Local , Mobile and Core Search , will be attending the shows looking to talk to folks. We want your feedback on current features, and idea for new things you want to see us build out, so these shows are an excellent chance to talk directly to the folks who do the work inside Bing. The Bing Booth will be prominently located, so swing by, chat, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:12:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48807 From an early stage people are taught that links are important to ranking well in the search engines. Too many people believe that its quantity over quality. Worse yet, some folks believe success lies in selling, or buying, links. Everyone agrees getting a good link is hard work and almost everyone has a formula for what they feel will work. Before I get into the detail in this post, I want to share a quick, recent story. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:32:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48618 Building quality content is far more than simply building content. And how do we measure quality? In this post well examine some of the factors often attributed to quality content, explain why you want to include them and help explain how the measurement of quality happens, though it may not be what you expect. Well tackle these in reverse order, first examining what qualifies content as quality, then reviewing the basic outline of producing quality content. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:26:19 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48484 There are a lot of businesses operating in the US. How many is a lot? Well, back when the last set of official stats existed for 2007, Canadas population was just over 30 million. Now youre wondering what Canadas population has to do with local businesses in the US, right? Well, there was almost the same number of businesses in the US in 2007 as the population of Canada! The actual number the US Census Bureau states for businesses in the US for 2007 was 27, 757,676 . Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:38:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48337 Keyword research. It should be the beginning of every content-related project you work on. From search to social and from paid search through building your website's navigation, keyword research will provide insights that can set you up for success. In this blog post we'll examine why you should perform the research and what the data is telling you. We'll also look at one internal Microsoft tool, and help you understand how to use the data shown in any tool to best effect. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:32:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=48260 On June 2 nd we announced a collaboration between Bing, Google and Yahoo to create and support a standard set of schemas for structured data markup on web pages. Although our companies compete in many ways, it was evident to us that collaboration in this space would be good for each search engine individually and for the industry as a whole. In the short time since the announcement weve received a lot of great feedback. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:05:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=47466 While Bing Webmaster Tool users have been enjoying the latest features such as crawl control and user management announced in early June at SMX Advanced as part of the Honey Badger update , behind the scenes we've been working on the next round of improvements for the tools. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:55:05 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=46281 Bing has been investing in building its Webmaster Tools for a while now, and today were announcing some of the most recent updates. We spent a lot of time earlier this year meeting with people at search conferences to understand what new features they wanted to see from us, and what current features we could support further. We also gathered feedback on what helpful content should exist within our webmaster space. Through the Honey Badger update, as were calling it, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:12:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=45343 Decisions just got easier with the addition of new social features to Bing. By bringing together the power of search and Facebook, people can now receive personalized search results based on the opinions of their friends by simply signing into Facebook. These features, available now, make it easy to see what peoples Facebook friends like across the Web, incorporate the collective IQ of the Web into their decision making, and conduct conversational searches. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 17 May 2011 23:36:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=44190 Per our public notice on February 4, 2011 regarding Bing Site Owner , we have officially disabled this service. What this means to our customers is: 1. Access to the www.bing.com/siteownwer will be redirected to the forum post announcing site owner's decommission. 2. Users who attempt to query in the search box produced by site owner will be redirected to a 404 page. You will need to update your code, or remove this code form your website. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 19 Apr 2011 19:44:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=43924 Today's blog post is brought to you by the letters S, E & O. As in S earch E ngine O ptimization. We have a lot of SEO related documents scattered around the ecosystem here at Bing and Microsoft, so I thought it would be nice to gather some of them into one location. This data will change as we update the main site but for now, it should prove helpful for folks looking to understand more about SEO and related topics. First off, I'll share all the links, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 13 Apr 2011 20:16:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=43237 This is a temporary post that was not deleted. Please delete this manually. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:00:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=41877 With cloud services such as Windows Azure now a viable alternative to traditional web hosting, numerous webmasters have reached out to us to ask if, and how, Bing uses the document location as a part of its ranking algorithm. In other words: does cloud-based web hosting outside of the documents intended geography negatively impact a documents ranking? Though its only one of over a thousand features we consider in our ranking, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:22:48 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=40792 Gang, we've got a quick note here to alert users to an item we'll be shutting down in 60 days. As of April 4th, 2011 we will discontinue support for the bing.com/siteowner functionality. If you continue to leverage the feature after this date (April 4th, 2011), users who attempt to query in the search box will be redirected to a 404 page. This means that you will need to move to the Bing API in order to continue to receive web or site search results from us. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:53:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=40677 You asked for more detailed data. We heard you. :) As part of our ongoing effort to bring more usable data forward for publishers, this week we made additional reporting improvements for your sites traffic. Located under the Traffic tab, page traffic gives detailed information for your top performing pages in Bing. This includes impression, click, CTR, and Average position. It also provides a list of query terms which have had that page return as a result. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:41:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38754 We are pleased to announce the release of our new Inbound Links feature. Bing Webmaster Tools now provides registered site owners the ability to easily & intuitively retrieve data about links to their sites. We received plenty of feedback from site owners and SEOs that expressed the importance of this data to better understand how their sites are ranked in Bing and to make the right improvements. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 14 Dec 2010 20:23:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=38045 Increasingly, web users are plagued by sites that appear to offer services to help protect their computers from viruses, Trojans and other web baddies. Because the primary tactic used is to frighten users into downloading the software; weve dubbed this category of attacks scareware or rogue anti-virus. Often, the resulting downloads and services contain malicious software that either takes over the users computer or allows other attackers access to the computer. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:10:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36964 A caption (also known as a summary) is the area of a Search Engine Results Page (SERP) devoted to a particular result. Captions help users to decide which result to click on and help site owners to communicate to users what to expect on their page. Captions are an oft-forgotten tool of the SEO toolkit. Ranking is certainly the most important factor in determining user clicks, but captions are also a contributor. In this post, I will give you a primer on captions. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Mon, 25 Oct 2010 20:06:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36827 In keeping with our themes of rapid change and responding to input and feedback from the webmaster community, we are working on future feature planning for the Bing webmaster tools and we would like to hear your thoughts in a few areas. The first area is Crawl-Delay: Today, we fully support crawl delay which is specified in robots.txt. We are considering creating a tool which allows you to directly control the frequency, and perhaps even the timing, of msnbot/bingbot. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:08:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36640 Early this month, in the Bingbot is Coming to Town blog post, we provided details about the impending change from msnbot to bingbot. Its almost October 1 st , so we thought wed send out a quick reminder that this change is still in the works. Taking into account webmaster feedback, we have modified our rollout schedule a bit. Instead of doing an 100% switch on day one, we will do a staged rollout. What does that mean to you? To start, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:15:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36641 Thinking Id be original, I first titled this post, Changes, they are a-coming. When I Bingd that title, I realized that original isnt the correct descriptor . . . so, I went searching for inspiration to aid in finding words to convey the importance and need for change, and came up with some great quotes, a few of my favorites: Everything changes and nothing remains still - Heraclitus They say that time changes things, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:15:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36642 Back in June, 2010, we published a blog post titled Bing crawler: bingbot on the horizon that announced our plans to retire our venerable web crawler, MSNBot, and replace it with the new. Our plans remain on track, and we want to remind you that this change will occur on October 1 st , 2010. We also want to take this opportunity to help set some expectations for this process, to discuss the name change details, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:15:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=36021 Early this month, in the Bingbot is Coming to Town blog post, we provided details about the impending change from msnbot to bingbot. Its almost October 1 st , so we thought wed send out a quick reminder that this change is still in the works. Taking into account webmaster feedback, we have modified our rollout schedule a bit. Instead of doing an 100% switch on day one, we will do a staged rollout. What does that mean to you? To start, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:07:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35673 Thinking Id be original, I first titled this post, Changes, they are a-coming. When I Bingd that title, I realized that original isnt the correct descriptor . . . so, I went searching for inspiration to aid in finding words to convey the importance and need for change, and came up with some great quotes, a few of my favorites: Everything changes and nothing remains still - Heraclitus They say that time changes things, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Mon, 20 Sep 2010 06:49:30 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=35230 Back in June, 2010, we published a blog post titled Bing crawler: bingbot on the horizon that announced our plans to retire our venerable web crawler, MSNBot, and replace it with the new. Our plans remain on track, and we want to remind you that this change will occur on October 1 st , 2010. We also want to take this opportunity to help set some expectations for this process, to discuss the name change details, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:05:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34926 In our continuing efforts to provide great value to our publishers, the Bing Engineering team is constantly testing new features to improve crawl efficiency. Such experiments are vital to our ability to innovate and improve our end user and publisher experience. Due to an upcoming experiment, a few sites may encounter an intermittent increase (anywhere from 5% to 25%) in crawl requests from MSNBot over the next month (specifically from August 25 th through end of September). Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:01:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34580 Today, we are announcing the release of new features for the Bing Webmaster tools. These features are a direct response to feedback we've received since our launch last month which was announced in Anthony's " A New Beginning: Bing Webmaster Tools " blog post. The loudest feedback was, "I want to download my data!" . . . so, we've added a new data export capability which enables you to export and download data from Bing Webmaster Tools about your registered sites. Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:13:32 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34302 In my last post , I started digging in to the many great new features offered in the new Bing Webmaster Tools . We have so much to talk about that I needed two posts to cover it! Let's get right back in the saddle and ride this horse back home. Note: As in the Tips and Tricks Part 1 post , the features I discuss here are primarily based on the Silverlight version of the new Bing Webmaster Tools. While there is a basic, down level version of the tools available, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:34:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=34070 I trust by now everyone has heard the big news : the new Bing Webmaster Tools are here! I have been working with it for quite some time now. I like the new look and feel of the Silverlight -based user interface. It is clean, intuitive, and easy to use. As the primary contributor to the tool's documentation, I've had some interesting discoveries as the tools were developed, Search Engines News SEO News Live Search Webmaster Center Live Search Webmaster Center Wed, 04 Aug 2010 18:15:21 GMT