Yahoo Switches to Bing

[Nandakishore]

This article - Yahoo Switches to Bing: Check How this Affected Your Site and Turn it Into Advantage - seems to be quite interesting. Can it change our SEO approaches?

[Dominique]

Very interesting. Add in the latest google change and we may well find ourselves in a totally new environment.

[CCJ]

Hi All,

That was a very interesting article and thank you for making us aware of it. There's also a great article about SEO myths in iGB Affiliate magazine that's worth a read. Actually, that whole magazine is great! We look forward to receiving it. We tried to find the article online but it looks like it's only in the magazine. The url is http://www.igbaffiliate.com/content/...liate-magazine

The only thing that says constant in SEO are the changes. It definitely keeps it challenging.

[best.hands]

Very interesting. Add in the latest google change and we may well find ourselves in a totally new environment.

Absolutely. But I never really care about yahoo switching to bing. All I care is how google will react to the change.

[TravG]

Thanks for the post - always useful to keep abreast of what the engines are doing.

[allfreechips]

I kinda wish bing would have switched to yahoo lol, either way this is what makes what we do a job no?

[Nandakishore]

I have not yet noticed any switching of Yahoo to Bing. Both are still having different values. I was told that the search engines have their own databases and it might take weeks before we notice any change. I am looking forward to this change because I have some top Bing rankings and more than 50% visitors from the USA.

[casinogod]

Very interesting indeed, good post!

[bb1web]

that whole magazine is great!

Never would disagree with CCJ but I would add a caveat that for those who are not in the same league as CCJ, in other words, if you aren't to a place where the most cutting-edge places to start promoting ... are on your 1st things to do list ...

then I suggest a grain of salt with some of the advice you will get on that magazine.

yes its very informative but I don't have to go too far back in memory to recall at least two countries it suggested were ripe for moving in on .... and at least one if not both .... were still saddled with severe laws against online gambling.

I don't find it responsible reporting to claim these places are the ripe new frontiers when their laws are not ready to accept us and this is admitted by the magazine itself.

I felt like ... well make up your mind. Is it a good place to focus on ? or is it still tied up with legal BS like the states?

The short answer is ... they're still tied up.

Some places like CCJ can afford to speculate but I strongly suggest those not in a comfortable place ... do not spend your time on something that might, or might not end up working out.

There were a couple other things reported that i felt were irresponsible but I can't remember them off hand now.

Not trying to shoot down the magazine but I think it is important to stay somewhat grounded with what is today, not tomorrow.

Because some of us won't make it to tomorrow to enjoy those tips for the future ... if we don't pay attention to today.

just my 2 cents.

[Chips]

Has anyone noticed a spike in MSNbot crawls? I have had msnbot eating my bandwith like candy. It is like it just now discovered my 5k + pages, the spike in bandwith usage got my attention, I thought I was under attack.

[Nandakishore]

Google chief sees Bing as main threat