Sep 22 2009
Bing’s Growing Market Share
Microsoft launched their new search engine, Bing, last May and its been gaining market share every month. In August, it grew faster than Google. The top 5 search engine market shares according to comScore qSearch are:
| 64.6% | |
| Yahoo | 19.3% |
| Microsoft | 9.3% |
| Ask | 3.9% |
| AOL | 3% |
Bing and SEO
Bing is significant enough to be considered in any SEO campaign. Microsoft released Bing: New Features Relevant to Webmasters white paper which explains what you need to do to get a good ranking in their search engine.
The requirement is typical what search engines look for: unique title and meta tags for each page, relevant page content, optimize page contents with keywords, and submit a sitemap.xml to Bing for indexing.