So today I heard the news that Bing.com has worked out a deal to display Bing.com search results for Yahoo… ARG! So if you are doing well in Bing.com then you have nothing to worry about but if not, beware!
I logged into my clients Webmaster Tools section for Bing.com to look into any issues now that I am forced to increase the importance of Bing.
When I logged in I noticed next to each of the sites URL’s it showed ‘fr’ for the Region. After reading tons of docs, I found that a lot companies are having the same issue. The fix reported by “Brett Yount” who is the Program Manager, is to do the following in your meta tags:
<meta http-equiv=’Content-Language’ content=’en-us’ />
So I just updated my site to display it in the header and I am waiting to see the results. I hate that Yahoo did this, Bing.com has so many bugs and their index still isn’t large enough. Microsoft is just spending money and I personally don’t care for Bing.com.
I hope this helps and please leave some comments.
Thanks for researching this and getting the fix!
Glad to help… I have also contacted Bing and they are looking deeper into the issue. I will let you know when I have more information, so stay tuned…
Today I logged into the Bing webmaster tools and the fix is working. My site is starting to show up as the region in the US. It will take a bit for Bing.com to update all the pages for the site but I can see it happening. The fix works!
Excellent site. It was pleasant to me.