Bing Sucks - MS is filtering search results
Lately I have been trying to get web presence for the PURE Cirkus Freaks built up. I addition to our own personal pages on FaceBook, MySpace, LJ, etc...we now have more specific locations for the group
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purecirkusfreaks/
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nightmare-Fuel/115518466252?__a=1
I built a play list on my YouTube channel featuring us
http://www.youtube.com/user/LurchRx
our Freak Blog
http://havefreakwilltravel.blogspot.com/
So, in order to research how easy it is to find us, I have been using the major search engines (Google, AltaVista, Ask.com, Bing). For the most part, everybody pulls up just about the same thing when I search "PURE Cirkus Freaks"...except for Bing.
Bing is excluding search results that point to the competition...YouTube (owned by Google) and Flickr (part of Yahoo!) do NOT show up using a basic search from the Bing homepage. I think it's pretty WTF that they would exclude results like that.
Google is still by far the best search...they seem to not care who owns what and just gives results that anybody can use and respect without having to jump through a bunch of hoops.
Speaking of web presence...anybody have tips on how to increase search visibility? I am tagging the heck outta everything on Flickr, plan to contact some of the people who have posted on YouTube to have them change the tags. Anything else? We should be setting up our own URL that will help but anything else in the meantime would be greatly appreciated
Peace
Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/purecirkusfreaks/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nightmare-Fuel/115518466252?__a=1
I built a play list on my YouTube channel featuring us
http://www.youtube.com/user/LurchRx
our Freak Blog
http://havefreakwilltravel.blogspot.com/
So, in order to research how easy it is to find us, I have been using the major search engines (Google, AltaVista, Ask.com, Bing). For the most part, everybody pulls up just about the same thing when I search "PURE Cirkus Freaks"...except for Bing.
Bing is excluding search results that point to the competition...YouTube (owned by Google) and Flickr (part of Yahoo!) do NOT show up using a basic search from the Bing homepage. I think it's pretty WTF that they would exclude results like that.
Google is still by far the best search...they seem to not care who owns what and just gives results that anybody can use and respect without having to jump through a bunch of hoops.
Speaking of web presence...anybody have tips on how to increase search visibility? I am tagging the heck outta everything on Flickr, plan to contact some of the people who have posted on YouTube to have them change the tags. Anything else? We should be setting up our own URL that will help but anything else in the meantime would be greatly appreciated
Peace