A participant at Bing Community has brought up an issue regarding the way Bing treats keywords domain names. As Cleo, the forum participant wrote “if you made bread and had a website named www.bread.com, it would rank really high with Bing.”
As we run several tests to see who are showing up on Page One of Bing, we found few discrepancies, including:
(1) Bing values a keyword domain name very high while the website in the test actually doesn’t have content at all (i.e., like a business card info). And, many websites in our tests use a very simple of few lines html coding (i.e., like a holding page).
(2) Bing also honors the seniority on the age of a domain name (especially a .com TLDs). Many old domain names overpowered younger domain names (which have great content) while most of the old domain names in our tests are running a parking company’s contents with Google AdSense feed.
Below is a print screen of a young domain name test (keyword: Bing Watch) on Bing vs Google
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Posted by: wones | 07/18/2009 at 05:40 AM