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Bing doesn't really have an equivalent for Panda or Penguin, so some of the tactics that used to work in Google (which will now harm you) can still work in Bing. Both sites take into account similar ranking factors but have different indices and different weightings for the factors. I like to think of Bing as being 1-2 years behind Google in terms of sophistication.

That makes MUCH more sense.  I'll Google it a bit and see what others have to say.  Thanks Keri!

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ Pay like $20 dollars, great piece of software ... can update itself as you update your site Probably, the one of my very best investments

SEO benefit? Nah, nothing. But redirecting the .com and .co.uk sites is probably better for the customer. I'm speaking as someone who used to hate when typing in twitter.co.uk sent me to a crappy MFA page (but somehow never remembered that I wanted the .com). If you've already got the domains what else are you going to do with them?

Hi! I see that a good part of your reply is based off of this October 2010 blog post at http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/seo-for-bing-versus-google/. I'd love to see any more recent information that you might have, as well as personal experience.

I run a custom report in GA that looks at landing page by keyword and try to make some sense out of that.  Do you have any better custom GA Reports?  As far as your other points, they are all very valid and we've been considering them.  I am a proponent of gaining insight through the customer voice - as long as it is not viewed as being intrusive. Thanks in advance for your response.

Hmmm, just looked it over. Not to be too negative, but I couldn't help but notice that a significant number of their speakers are from companies that are not performing well and/or are on a downward spiral: Barnes & Noble, AOL, and Amtrak.

Hi JP Moulin, Thanks for your question.  Rand and The Back Burner already did a good job explaining some things about PA/DA so I'll stick to looking at the numbers. I looked at the top level metrics for these four sites in Open Site Explorer: Site                            PA           DA        # Linking Root domains         # Links www.nahoku.com      51           41               196                                    3695 www.mauidivers.com  53         43                228                                    4274 www.jared.com          59          51                 283                                     871 www.hawaiianjewelryshop.com  60  52        325                                   5890 These look pretty well ordered based on these numbers to me (more links + linking domains => higher PA/DA) with the possible exception of www.jared.com which is a bit of an outlier with 283 linking root domains and only 871 links.  In this case, the domain links are boosting it's PA/DA.  The new model prefers metrics associated with link diversity/domain signals (linking root domains, linking C-blocks, etc) over the old one and this is what's happening with www.jared.com.

Visual Economics pretty much explains it all. 97th Floor is the king of infographics if you ask me.

Thanks Dan.  Actually, it is exactly what our site is about, and we are getting ranked for all kinds of non-branded keywords.  Happy days!  I didn't think of the indexing possibility and tipping the scale.  I'd be interested to hear what else people say.  Thanks again!