The Search Blog
A blog all about search engines from SEO experts inside Microsoft (not within the Bing team)
Free Search Engine event in Seattle
If you are based in Seattle, WA and are interested in a FREE SEO/social media event, featuring Duane...
Date: 07/22/2013
A clever way of getting more likes
Facebook ‘likes’ are becoming more and more important as a ranking factor for search...
Date: 05/05/2011
Google testing new full page preview
I have seen this a couple of times over the past few weeks, but only today finally managed to...
Date: 04/08/2011
Bing is used to change the past (time travel)
If you have seen the trailer for the new ‘Source Code’ time travel movie, you may have noticed that...
Date: 04/04/2011
+1: Google’s version of Facebook ‘likes’
There can be little argument that Facebook is the global leader when it comes to owning the social...
Date: 03/31/2011
A great example of how Quora enabled a valuable and open discussion
A recent post on Quora provides a good open discussion about the best SEO tools available on the...
Date: 02/03/2011
Useful info from Google if you have a mobile site
Matt Cutts recently presented some valuable information about detecting the ‘Googlebot-Mobile’ user...
Date: 01/24/2011
Seller rating scores will impact your SEO
Shopping comparison sites have for a long time been a popular method of finding the cheapest price...
Date: 01/19/2011
Search engines treat meta refresh the same as 301 redirects
SEOMOZ recently published a good post for testing your level of expertise on SEO. Whilst I am...
Date: 11/30/2010
Do not religiously follow the ‘3 click rule’. But also think about SEO
How many clicks does it take your users to complete their tasks? How many give up before they...
Date: 11/22/2010
Awesome Expert SEO advice from the Distilled ProSEO seminar
Lots of great nuggets of information coming out of the Distilled ProSEO conference again this...
Date: 10/25/2010
Bing to integrate with Facebook for personalized search results [VIDEO]
Exciting News! Today Microsoft announced that Bing will partner with Facebook to deliver...
Date: 10/13/2010
Klout.com now also considers Facebook for influencer scores
Klout.com is a relatively new site which calculates a ‘Klout’ score to represent someone’s level of...
Date: 10/13/2010
How to find things online without searching (Part 3 of 5)
This mini series of posts focuses on methods of finding information online without typing a single...
Date: 09/22/2010
Bing + IE9 = the future of search
This short preview video shows how the soon to be released HTML5 features of Bing, along with the...
Date: 09/18/2010
How to move a website and not break SEO [Infographic]
During our recent Microsoft Value Professionals (MVP) SEO clinics, I was asked about best practices...
Date: 09/05/2010
Flatten your site architecture
Recently we ran some SEO site clinics for our Microsoft Valued Professionals (MVPs), where we...
Date: 08/27/2010
Check your Google site links
Tweet I was just on the phone to my colleague Bob O’Brien from Seattle, who manages the search...
Date: 08/23/2010
All about SEO on support.microsoft.com (Audio interview)
I was recently interviewed by the guys at https://mstalk.in to discuss Search Engine Optimization and...
Date: 08/22/2010
How to find things online without searching (Part 2 of 5)
Following on from part 1 in this mini series, part 2 focuses on how ‘liking’, ‘tweeting’,...
Date: 08/19/2010
How to find things online without searching (Part 1 of 5)
Tweet Getting traffic to your website nowadays requires a lot more than getting your pages in to the...
Date: 08/09/2010
How to implement a drop down correctly for SEO
Whilst drop down boxes are commonly used to present web users with a list of many choices for a...
Date: 07/28/2010
5 great Tweets about search from the past week
Here are 5 search related topics which I have found interesting over the past week. ...
Date: 07/14/2010
5 SEO features for your Content Management System
Imagine you have just received the keys to a shiny new, custom built, special edition sports car...
Date: 07/06/2010
Web writing guidelines from Yahoo!
Yahoo have create a set of writing guidelines for the web, which are actually quite useful and quick...
Date: 06/28/2010
Beginners guide to SEO
It’s easy to assume that everyone knows the basics of SEO…titles, headings, PageRank, keyword...
Date: 06/24/2010
Stay cool this summer with Bing
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
Example of promoted Tweet on Twitter
Search Engine Land recently reported on a Disney Pixar’s use of the Twitter ‘Promoted Tweets’...
Date: 06/21/2010
Some must know statistics…
Everyone lots stats. Here are a few pulled from John Batelle’s recent @CMSummit Presentation…...
Date: 06/19/2010
A new way of identifying influencers?
This is an interesting idea for a method of finding influencers (or indeed, being found) for a...
Date: 06/10/2010
New search engines features=less nonsense referrals?
Yesterday Google released an update which adds a left navigation bar to search results designed to...
Date: 05/06/2010
Are you ranking for your competitor's brand keywords?
The ‘Similar’ functionality on Google provides an easy way for your customers to research your...
Date: 05/02/2010
A reminder about the effectiveness of keyword analysis
When working on SEO at Microsoft, link building is a somewhat easier challenge than it would be on...
Date: 04/04/2010
Exciting news from Bing at SES New York!
Yusuf Mehdi from Microsoft took to the stage at SES New York today, and announced some exciting news...
Date: 03/25/2010
Microsoft Pivot: future of browsing/searching?
Gary Flake from Microsoft research delivered a fascinating demo of ‘Microsoft Pivot’, an...
Date: 03/04/2010
Want to get noticed in Bing maps? Tag your Flickr Photos!
Whilst I love working at Microsoft, I sometimes wish that I was responsible for a local business,...
Date: 02/17/2010
Get more clicks: location tag your tweets
Imagine being able to pop Tweets up in front of your customers as they browse online maps near the...
Date: 01/29/2010
Want to get noticed? Get some friends!
Are you still just publishing content to the web? Or are you injecting content in to the social...
Date: 01/27/2010
Free SEO toolkit with tutorial videos
A new page on Microsoft.com provides tutorial videos, step by step instructions and download links...
Date: 01/25/2010
Hyperlink images to encourage downloads
SEOMOZ have published a great post about optimising customer conversions on their website. Whilst...
Date: 01/14/2010
Twenty Ten Resolutions
One of my favourite film trilogies of all time is Back To The Future. I can still remember watching...
Date: 01/03/2010
Explained: unexplainable on-site searches
As I am typing, I am sitting in between my girlfriend and my mum whilst they browse the Marks and...
Date: 12/26/2009
Make sure you clear cookies before checking rankings
For a while now Google have offered personalised search which provides a custom ordering of search...
Date: 12/05/2009
Popular searches for 2009
Bing and Yahoo have both recently released the list of top searches for 2009. . . Yahoo 1. Michael...
Date: 12/02/2009
Majority of social network users are female!
This post over on Pingdom provides an enlightening graphic showing the split of male vs. female...
Date: 11/30/2009
Download your Google Sidewiki comments
Google Sidewiki was launched a few months ago as a tool for Google toolbar users to comment on...
Date: 11/18/2009