What is causing Bing and Google Rankings to Differ by so much?

[hfranz]

Does anyone know the trick to have Google Rankings to be as good as Bing/Yahoo Results?

[AlanMosley]

My opinion, you can rank well in bing without any links or just a few, if you have every thing else right, google you need some good links.

there are many other factors, they have different algorithms, if you post a url, we can have a look and give a better opinion.

[EGOL]

Search engines are like people and food..... Some like Japanese food... others hate it... some like Indian food... others hate it...  Difficult to explain why.

[jgower]

I wish I knew...I cannot get our main site rank on bing for a particular keyword, yet we also have a site under a different domain that we have done absolutely nothing with that is ranking in the middle of the first page on that keyword on a consistent basis for months now...I guess bing just really likes that crappy site that provides next to no good content...

From my experience on a couple of sites it also looks like bing really favors wordpress, but who knows?

[SoccerStop]

That's a great question.  I have wondered the same thing for so long, as I have been working on the SEO of our soccer equipment store at www.soccerstop.com for several years.  One thing I have noticed is that it takes time.  When I optimize or focus our backlink network to particular keywords it takes affect for the different search engines at different times, but eventually it seems to get to all of them.  It's so easy to want to keep making changes because you may see a result in one and not the other.  Then from the changes you don't know what's working or not working because the first set of changes hasn't taken affect in one or more of the search engines.  I have felt that you have to come up with a plan and make those changes as you see necessary, and then give it some time to take affect.

Thanks
James