Adult Webmasters And Bing.com

[cthulhu_waves]

I know everyone in the business is Googe-oriented, but has anyone seen how efficient and easy it is to surf for stuff in Bing.com? It is refreshing to find results that are actually what you are looking for and in most cases, results that are different from Google. More importantly, there aren't much shit that you have to wade through.

And most of all, Bing seems to have a better result of porn searches. Well, satisfying searches that aren't muddled with SEO shit which eventually has nothing to do with what I am looking for.

Sorry for asking a naive question, but do webmasters, as an option, make their site geared towards Bing, and has it improved your conversion? How do you guys do that? Is it the same rules as Google?

[NinjaSteve]

Bing is a pleasure to surf but they are lacking traffic at this point.

[ecchi]

I get a hell of a lot of traffic from Google, compared with a tiny amount from Bing. However I am not sure if that is because Google get a hell of a lot more traffic themselves, or if Bing is better at cutting through my "SEO shit". If it is the former, then Bing is a no-hoper, if it is the latter then I have a lot of learning to do!

I am monitoring the situation, but have not yet come to a definite conclusion.

[oldbrad]

I had one site that got 20 times the traffic from bing as it did from google. The site was spammy with the keywords in all the links, extra keywords listed on page, etc.

When I noticed not much coming from google, I cleaned out the alt tags and internal link spam and my google went up 30 times what it was and the bing traffic dropped off. Seems like they are opposites as far as what will set off filters between the sites and what will benefit the listings.

I prefer the less spammy version that google likes.

[Vekseid]

My Bing traffic converts at twice the rate that Google does, so I take that as a genuinely good sign if it grows much.

[abatis]

not sure at all, but bings traffic might be a more qualified internet shopper.....meaning they made a choice to use bing instead of google and something there makes them a different end user than google users. remember, bing is a decision engine.

-abatis

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by abatis

not sure at all, but bings traffic might be a more qualified internet shopper.....meaning they made a choice to use bing instead of google and something there makes them a different end user than google users. remember, bing is a decision engine.

What Vekseid said ("My Bing traffic converts at twice the rate that Google does") kind of indicates that Bing is used by newbies, whereas the experienced "seen it all" type surfer uses Google.

[Greenguy]

I just did a search for "greenguy" on each & I think that Bing might be crawling Google for results. The reason for this is....

Greenguy on Bing

Greenguy on Google

Both have my domain in the top 2 spots. Google has always listed my main page right below my index - not as another page on that domain, but as a separate listing.

Bing, on the other hand, did not have my domain listed until the 4th or 5th page the last time I looked (couple months ago) Now, they have my index & main page listed the same way the Google does.

It seems very strange that Bing has updated my listings by matching the same oddity that Google has had for me for the last 2 years.

[SCORE-Cash]

My last sale on my stats came from bing, but what I don't understand when I look at the search field it list the URL of the site the guy joined. And my page doesn't even appear with that term as of yesterday on bing.

[tickler]

Originally Posted by SCORE-Cash

My last sale on my stats came from bing, but what I don't understand when I look at the search field it list the URL of the site the guy joined. And my page doesn't even appear with that term as of yesterday on bing.

I get that all the time. Hits from referring pages that don't have my links on them.

[InfoGuy]

Originally Posted by Greenie

I just did a search for "greenguy" on each & I think that Bing might be crawling Google for results. The reason for this is....

Greenguy on Bing

Greenguy on Google

Both have my domain in the top 2 spots. Google has always listed my main page right below my index - not as another page on that domain, but as a separate listing.

Bing, on the other hand, did not have my domain listed until the 4th or 5th page the last time I looked (couple months ago) Now, they have my index & main page listed the same way the Google does.

It seems very strange that Bing has updated my listings by matching the same oddity that Google has had for me for the last 2 years.

It doesn't look unusual. According to G, your index page has more inbound links than your main page, so ranking it higher would be logical.

On G, many large sites have separate listings, instead of sublistings - YouTube, CNN, MySpace, Twitter, so your G results don't look unusual. It doesn't look like Bing has any sublistings.

With regard to better Bing conversions, I'd say the higher conversion ratios are probably due to noobs using Bing as the default search engine on their new computers.

[InfoGuy]

Originally Posted by SCORE-Cash

My last sale on my stats came from bing, but what I don't understand when I look at the search field it list the URL of the site the guy joined. And my page doesn't even appear with that term as of yesterday on bing.

It's common for search engines to display different SERPs in different geographical locations. SERPs also fluctuate when updates are distributed through different data centers.