In Part 4 of this special series, Contributor and Bing Chief Evangelist Christi Olson reviews widgets, copyright removal notices, webmaster tools API, specialty sections and how to contact support if you need assistance. In this section, I’m going to cover Read More
Bing Multi-Perspective Answers – Like Two Featured Snippets
Bing wrote about their new Multi-Perspective Answers for their Intelligent Answers set. This is similar to what Google calls “featured snippets,” in case you were wondering. In this case, Bing may show two different answers from two different perspectives side Read More
Bing Maps adds build and share your itinerary
Now in the US and the UK, you can plan your trips using Bing Maps with predefined itineraries that can be customized. Bing has announced that within Bing Maps, you can now build and share your itinerary for upcoming vacations Read More
Bing adds hotel booking filter, home services pricing & coupon deals in search
Bing launches new intelligent search features to help you make better buying decisions. Bing has announced an array of new “intelligent search” features around hotel searches, home cost and pricing guides and also coupon and deal snippets in search. Bing Read More
Bing Ads Opens Expanded Text Ads To All Customers
As you know, Bing Ads announced back in June they are going to go with expanded text ads. Well now Bing has opened up expanded text ads to all customers, they said in a blog post yesterday. Like Google AdWords, Read More
Bing Adds More Intelligent Search Features
Bing announced this week, as I covered at Search Engine Land, that they launched new intelligent search features. Here is a quick run down on those features: Bing will now aggregated facts across multiple sources for a given topic: A Read More
Bing Search Algorithm Update? Nope, Analytics Tracking Issue.
I was all excited, I saw widespread reports of a Bing Search algorithm update at and then I dug deeper and it seems it was more related to how Google Analytics reports organic traffic from Bing. Something changed because of Read More
Bing announces Bing AMP viewer & JSON-LD support in Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing announced two new features at SMX Advanced this morning. Microsoft unveiled two new features within Bing during principal program manager Fabrice Canel’s appearance at SMX Advanced this morning. First, he announced support within Bing Webmaster Tools to debug and view your Read More
Bing begins removing sidebar text ads on desktop
Starting in the US, text ads will show only in the mainline at the top and bottom of search results pages. Following in Google’s footsteps, Bing is removing text ads from the sidebar in desktop search results. Starting today, March 26, Bing will Read More
Bing: You Can Have Up To 125 Trillion URLs In Sitemaps
Fabrice Canel, the Principal Program Manager of the Bing Index Generation team, posted their Sitemaps best practices guide for large web sites. Bing says they can support up to 125 trillion links through multiple XML sitemap files. With one sitemap file, Bing Read More