Find your site position in Bing

One method is to search for the term you want and then count. Is easy when your on the first page, but it gets annoying when you’re not in top ten. So you can use a tool, preferably a free one. I will not go into the specialized tools, just give you a hint.

First you can go to http://www.searchenginegenie.com/bing-position-checker.html and use the tool there, it looks like this:

If you have multiple keywords, or want to check rankings on multiple search engines, is better to use a specialized tool, like:
http://www.mikes-marketing-tools.com/ranking-reports/
You do it frequently, then use http://tools.seobook.com/firefox/rank-checker/, a free tool that you can install in seconds.

What other tool you found useful? Comment:

Top 10 Search Providers for August 2009, Ranked by Searches (U.S.)
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
| Provider                     |  Searches   | M-O-M %  |  Share of  |
|                              |    (000)    |  Growth  |  Searches  |
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
| Total                        | 10,812,734  |   2.9%   |   100.0%   |
| Google Search                |  6,986,580  |   2.6%   |   64.6%    |
| Yahoo! Search                |  1,726,060  |  -4.2%   |   16.0%    |
| MSN/Windows Live/Bing Search |  1,156,415  |  22.1%   |   10.7%    |
| AOL Search                   |   333,231   |   1.8%   |    3.1%    |
| Ask.com Search               |   186,270   |   2.9%   |    1.7%    |
| My Web Search                |   128,432   |   0.5%   |    1.2%    |
| Comcast Search               |   50,328    |  -21.6%  |    0.5%    |
| Yellow Pages Search          |   37,923    |   2.7%   |    0.4%    |
| NexTag Search                |   31,830    |   0.4%   |    0.3%    |
| Local.com Search             |   16,314    |   2.9%   |    0.2%    |
+------------------------------+-------------+----------+------------+
Source: Nielsen MegaView Search

Google still leads the pack from a comfortable 65% (this is almost a monopoly on search), Yahoo is down 4% above the previous month. It would be useful to compare the Bing market share (taken by the number of searches) with Bing market share taken by the number of searchers. That would allow to draw some interesting conclusions.

Well, here are the raw data according to ComScore:

Google sites are doing great, with an impressive growth of 58% over last July. Even combined, Yahoo and Microsoft are far away from Google. Yandex, the Russian search engine, is the absolute performer, almost doubling the number of searches.

Bing xRank ranks most notable people

According to the developers, “xRank keeps track of notable people and puts them in order for you. We count Bing web searches for movie stars, musicians, and other famous people. Then, we compile our findings into an insightful ranking formula that tells you who the world is searching for most. The result is a cultural snapshot of who’s hot and who’s not!”

By using xRank, you can easily do one of the following:

• Search.
  Enter a name and Bing will tell you who they are and how they rate.
• Learn.
  You can browse a bio or get the latest news headlines about the person you’re interested in.
• Explore.
  For each celebrity, you are ine click away from the latest videos, images, movies, albums, and more.
• Relate.
  This is one of my favorite features of xRank. This is one big electronic gossip machine. Thumbnail photos at the bottom of xRank show you the associates, friends, enemies, and romances, of the person you’re interested in.
• Scan.
  You are a big fan of some singer or movie star? Look over the rankings and trending over time. Movement at the top of the list means more than it does near the bottom.
• Track.
  View a person’s popularity over the past six months on the xRank History chart. Under the xRank History chart, find the top-moving searches. These are real searches from users on the day the person peaked in popularity on xRank.

Celebrities, politicians and…

According to Microsoft, worth tracking are:

• celebrities
• politicians
• musicians
• bloggers

You can see that these are the categories which make the first page of tabloids, except maybe bloggers.

I’m not into any of the celebrity business and also not interested in politics or top bloggers. But I like the concept and think this is a valuable SEO resource for people interested in more visitors and clicks. Write about what’s hot and you may receive thousands of visits a day.

What do you think? Is xRank useful or not?

VIN stands for Vehicle Information Number and was initiated in 1980. It’s a standard method to identify cars. Decoding the number is easy and free. The used vehicle’s history is provided usually for a small fee. But several bucks can really make a difference because nobody likes to buy a car that had problems in the past.

Bing is able to display the information only in certain countries.

[job] salary
where [job] is the job you have or want to have. Some examples:
engineer salary
stock broker salary

We did some searches and found out some interesting stuff. For instance, if you want to be paid on hourly basis, a bartender (Hourly rate :$6.17 to $8.89) is paid the same as a babysitter (Hourly rate :$5.79 to $9.96), but not as good as a bodyguard (Hourly rate :$16.59 to $50.71).

What is the best paid job that can be found by Bing salary search? Comment:

For that search we used “weather in UK” search string.

Just type the following conversion command into Bing’s search box:

[number] [unit] in [unit]
It looks like this:
11 pounds in kilograms
11 miles in kilometres

IP:[Ip-number] where [Ip-number] is the IP you’re interested in. Here’s an example:

IP lookout with Bing

instead of typing  www.bing.com, try http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

It should look like this: