The Search Blog
A blog all about search engines from SEO experts inside Microsoft (not within the Bing team)
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Date: 07/22/2013
Facebook ‘likes’ are becoming more and more important as a ranking factor for search...
Date: 05/05/2011
I have seen this a couple of times over the past few weeks, but only today finally managed to...
Date: 04/08/2011
If you have seen the trailer for the new ‘Source Code’ time travel movie, you may have noticed that...
Date: 04/04/2011
There can be little argument that Facebook is the global leader when it comes to owning the social...
Date: 03/31/2011
A recent post on Quora provides a good open discussion about the best SEO tools available on the...
Date: 02/03/2011
Matt Cutts recently presented some valuable information about detecting the ‘Googlebot-Mobile’ user...
Date: 01/24/2011
Shopping comparison sites have for a long time been a popular method of finding the cheapest price...
Date: 01/19/2011
SEOMOZ recently published a good post for testing your level of expertise on SEO. Whilst I am...
Date: 11/30/2010
How many clicks does it take your users to complete their tasks? How many give up before they...
Date: 11/22/2010
Lots of great nuggets of information coming out of the Distilled ProSEO conference again this...
Date: 10/25/2010
Exciting News! Today Microsoft announced that Bing will partner with Facebook to deliver...
Date: 10/13/2010
Klout.com is a relatively new site which calculates a ‘Klout’ score to represent someone’s level of...
Date: 10/13/2010
This mini series of posts focuses on methods of finding information online without typing a single...
Date: 09/22/2010
This short preview video shows how the soon to be released HTML5 features of Bing, along with the...
Date: 09/18/2010
During our recent Microsoft Value Professionals (MVP) SEO clinics, I was asked about best practices...
Date: 09/05/2010
Recently we ran some SEO site clinics for our Microsoft Valued Professionals (MVPs), where we...
Date: 08/27/2010
Tweet I was just on the phone to my colleague Bob O’Brien from Seattle, who manages the search...
Date: 08/23/2010
I was recently interviewed by the guys at https://mstalk.in to discuss Search Engine Optimization and...
Date: 08/22/2010
Following on from part 1 in this mini series, part 2 focuses on how ‘liking’, ‘tweeting’,...
Date: 08/19/2010
Tweet Getting traffic to your website nowadays requires a lot more than getting your pages in to the...
Date: 08/09/2010
Whilst drop down boxes are commonly used to present web users with a list of many choices for a...
Date: 07/28/2010
Here are 5 search related topics which I have found interesting over the past week. ...
Date: 07/14/2010
Imagine you have just received the keys to a shiny new, custom built, special edition sports car...
Date: 07/06/2010
Yahoo have create a set of writing guidelines for the web, which are actually quite useful and quick...
Date: 06/28/2010
It’s easy to assume that everyone knows the basics of SEO…titles, headings, PageRank, keyword...
Date: 06/24/2010
This photo of a Bing ice cream van was taken a few minutes ago by a friend in London (he has given...
Date: 06/24/2010
Search Engine Land recently reported on a Disney Pixar’s use of the Twitter ‘Promoted Tweets’...
Date: 06/21/2010
Everyone lots stats. Here are a few pulled from John Batelle’s recent @CMSummit Presentation…...
Date: 06/19/2010
This is an interesting idea for a method of finding influencers (or indeed, being found) for a...
Date: 06/10/2010
Yesterday Google released an update which adds a left navigation bar to search results designed to...
Date: 05/06/2010
The ‘Similar’ functionality on Google provides an easy way for your customers to research your...
Date: 05/02/2010
When working on SEO at Microsoft, link building is a somewhat easier challenge than it would be on...
Date: 04/04/2010
Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft took to the stage at SES New York today, and announced some exciting news...
Date: 03/25/2010
Gary Flake from Microsoft research delivered a fascinating demo of ‘Microsoft Pivot’, an...
Date: 03/04/2010
Whilst I love working at Microsoft, I sometimes wish that I was responsible for a local business,...
Date: 02/17/2010
Imagine being able to pop Tweets up in front of your customers as they browse online maps near the...
Date: 01/29/2010
Are you still just publishing content to the web? Or are you injecting content in to the social...
Date: 01/27/2010
A new page on Microsoft.com provides tutorial videos, step by step instructions and download links...
Date: 01/25/2010
SEOMOZ have published a great post about optimising customer conversions on their website. Whilst...
Date: 01/14/2010
One of my favourite film trilogies of all time is Back To The Future. I can still remember watching...
Date: 01/03/2010
As I am typing, I am sitting in between my girlfriend and my mum whilst they browse the Marks and...
Date: 12/26/2009
For a while now Google have offered personalised search which provides a custom ordering of search...
Date: 12/05/2009
Bing and Yahoo have both recently released the list of top searches for 2009. . . Yahoo 1. Michael...
Date: 12/02/2009
This post over on Pingdom provides an enlightening graphic showing the split of male vs. female...
Date: 11/30/2009
Google Sidewiki was launched a few months ago as a tool for Google toolbar users to comment on...
Date: 11/18/2009