{"id":19206,"date":"2022-10-03T12:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T12:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/seo\/https-www-nobraineragency-co-uk-blog-content-marketing-how-to-check-your-bing-visibility-why-you-should\/"},"modified":"2023-12-12T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T12:17:39","slug":"how-to-check-your-bing-visibility-why-you-should","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobraineragency.com\/content\/how-to-check-your-bing-visibility-why-you-should\/","title":{"rendered":"How to check your visibility in Bing and why you should"},"content":{"rendered":"
When shaping your SEO strategy or even completing a technical SEO audit, you\u2019d be forgiven for jumping straight into Google and ignoring all other search engines.<\/strong><\/p>\n After all, we all know that Google is the world\u2019s top search engine – with over 95% of over 5 billion internet users going to Google for answers. But that leaves 5%, or 250 million users, deciding to go elsewhere.<\/p>\n That’s a big opportunity that’s less competitive, and has a huge pool of potential top-tier rankings ready for the taking. Other search engines are on the rise (see above) and are steadily stealing market-share from Google – with Bing being the rising star here.<\/p>\n Whenever researching SEO best practices<\/a> and learning about how to properly optimise a website, the guidance you\u2019ll find will either come directly from Google, or it will be from research conducted around the Google search engine algorithm.<\/p>\n When looking at others, such as Bing, Microsoft does share some guidance on how to optimise for their search engine, including offering Bing Webmaster tools, but there\u2019s not much talk about Bing within the SEO community.<\/p>\n As I’ve already explained, you could say that this is for good reason, as you\u2019ll likely not get much traffic from Bing, anyway. However, if your business generates any revenue from search whatsoever, can you really afford to ignore this search engine?<\/strong><\/p>\n To evaluate how important Bing may be for your website, it’s important to first ask yourself a series a few key questions, like:<\/p>\n There\u2019s no clear cut way to measure the traffic you are generating from a particular search engine, but you can see how much traffic you’re generating from any given browser and use this as a measurement for your Bing traffic.<\/p>\n Looking at the table below, we can see that this particular example doesn’t generate a significant amount of traffic from Bing, coming in 5th place, but average Pages\/Session and the session duration are much greater.<\/p>\n Using the data below, you could conclude that Bing traffic is definitely valuable traffic, especially compared to other sources, and if we were to increase our traffic through Bing we would in turn also increase our revenue.<\/p>\n Yes, Bing does have a much smaller user base than Google, meaning when assessing Bing, it is important to make sure you are also looking at the demographics of your website, and comparing that to the demographics of Bing.<\/p>\n If the demographics of your website and Bing closely match, there’s a good chance that increasing your visibility in Bing will drive an increase in traffic to your site.<\/p>\n As Bing has less users, this also means that it is less competitive, meaning increasing your positioning for high volume key terms is easier than it would be on Google.<\/p>\n “<\/em>Bing web search seems to be most popular among more mature audiences, with over 70% of users being older than 35. <\/em><\/p>\n Bing usage statistics shows that just 11% of users are 18-24 years old, while 18% are 25-34. With 35-54-year-olds accounting for 18% of Bing\u2019s US users, while those in the 45-54 range make 20% of the user base. Businesses that aim to attract younger generations should definitely think twice about investing in ads on Bing. <\/em><\/p>\n On the flip side, companies that cater to older demographic groups might find Bing to be the right move.”<\/em>
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\nFind more statistics at Statista<\/a><\/p>\nHow much traffic are you currently generating from Bing?<\/h2>\n
<\/p>\nWill an increase in Bing visibility drive an increase in traffic?<\/h2>\n
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\nSource: <\/em>99firms.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWhat is your current visibility in Bing?<\/h2>\n