If you wanna work on more organic or search engine traffic for your blog or website, you should work on the three search engines, that have largest market shares and they are Google, Yahoo and MSN or now Bing. But of course, if you have huge traffic from Google, you could almost ignore the rest. But if you’re one who doesn’t wanna have even a single drop to leak through, then you should also consider Yahoo and Bing, the recent rising star of Microsoft search engine.
Bing is definitely a rising star, although it’s still far behind Google. But it’s catching up close to Yahoo. The most recent search figures released by Nielsen, Bing has managed to capture a total of 10.7% US searches in August 2009. This is a storing figure considering Bing is a new born, making Bing as one of the top 10 fastest growing search engines. Bing is almost ready to overtake Yahoo, which has dropped 4.2% to a total of only 16% of total US searches. Attached below show the full figures of the top 10 search engines. Google still stays at the top, capturing a total of 64.6%.
BTW, How to get your Blog or website into BING?
If you have lots of original and unique contents and consistently update your blog, it shall get on BING pretty soon. And it’s best to maintain a sitemap for your website or blog. If your blog runs Wordpress, then you just need to have the XML Sitemap Generator plugin, which it generates sitemap for any new contents or blog posts added and also includes BING/MSN in its notification/PING list once new contents added and a new sitemap is generated. And similarly, you can check out if your new blog posts have been included in Bing by typing “site:yourwebsite.com” on the Bing search box.
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