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   Jane@CMposted 13 years ago

   Bing likes me   So for now, they are my new homepage.

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      K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Jane,
      I'm not really familiar with Bing. What are the benefits and is it a monetized option like HP? How do I find you on the site?

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         katiem2posted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Its a search engine is it not?

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            K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Got it, I was way off! Thanks katiem2.

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      Richieb799posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I am getting a lot of traffic from really obscure search engines all though my most popular hub its from Google lol.. a couple are holding up after the Panda attack

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   Cagsilposted 13 years ago

   Cool!
   
   Btw- nice to see you and hope you are well.

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      katiem2posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I second that, great to here Bing likes you, it's good to have the search engines in your favor!  Congrats
      
      Hi Cagsil great to see ya!

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         Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Hey Katie Always a pleasure to see you and hope you're well too.
         
         
         @K9, nice to see you too. Hope things are well for you also.

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            K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks Cags! Nice to see you also. Things are pretty good. Having a blast with wrting contest. Hope you are doing well these days.

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               Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Cool to hear about you writing in the contest. Good luck. I'm doing well. Thank you.

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                  K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  Super glad to hear it my friend. Thanks for the "luck" I need it with all of the hot hubs being entered.
                  Do you use Bing Cags?

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                     Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     Sorry, I seem to have missed your post. I apologize. Actually, I haven't, but am planning on doing as some others have, submitting my hubs.
                     
                     Just to test it out and see what kind of results I get.
                     
                     
                     @Misty - what's up? You back home?

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                        mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Hi Cags, yep, back in Guernsey again, missing the holiday of course, but weather pretty good here right now, so getting growing my veggies as usual
                        
                        PS. Can you answer my question about submitting hubs to Bing Cags??

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                           Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                           I would think that Bing would, but it is unknown how pages/hubs/sites Bing lists?
                           
                           The last time I checked, Google was up over 300 Billion pages, in total. Bing- I don't know anything about or how it indexes?
                           
                           That is why I'm contemplating submitting a few hubs to see what happens.
                           
                           I hope you get a great deal from your garden.

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                              mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

                              Awww, thanks Cags, right now the garden is likely to produce more income than Hubpages I am looking seriously at writing for excerptz.com (Ryankett's site) too, (80% Adsense revenue to author), and setting up my own site. I will not leave Hubpages, but guess spreading our net a little wider has got to be a good thing.

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                                 Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                                 You're welcome. And, yes, diversity is a good thing.

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   mcimicataposted 13 years ago

   I am not a huge fan of Bing, but I think that they have significantly improved over the last few months.

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   Stacie Lposted 13 years ago

   I didn't like Bing in the beginning as well but since they have more accurate searches than Google now, I am using them and submitting my hubs

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Won't their 'bots' and 'spiders' find our hubs without us submitting them manually, because I really don't fancy submitting over 300 of mine one by one in order to get them listed with Bing?

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         rebekahELLEposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         yes, they find hubs. my Bing views have increased since all of this google craziness. I've never submitted a hub. I didn't realize it was an option.

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            mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Maybe it just speeds up the process, but I think I will have to play the waiting game as submitting all of mine one by one would take forever.

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            Glenn Stokposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I have also been noticing more traffic from Bing since the Google Panda Update. But it might be due to what I did to improve my hubs to survive the changes. I'm also seeing more traffic from Yahoo. But Google traffic? That's another story...way down today!

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   Aficionadaposted 13 years ago

   @Stacie L and mistyhorizon2003
   
   How do you go about submitting a Hub to Bing - or to any other search engine?

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I wish I could answer this question Aficionada, but to be honest I have never done it, which is another reason I am not keen to start now! Perhaps Cags or Stacie L can answer this and enlighten both of us

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   rebekahELLEposted 13 years ago

   I've been looking around over there and the images are amazing. It has improved since I last explored.
   I found this page which includes the link to submit an URL.
   http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmasters/
   
   It looks like you can submit your profile page and it will pick up hubs. That's all I'm doing for now, and will see what happens.

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      Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      That's what I just did. I submitted my profile.
      
      
      Edit: Thank you for the link

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      Aficionadaposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks, rebekahELLE!  Much appreciated.  I'll certainly try this.

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, that is great, thanks I shall try that now

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      WriteAngledposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you for the tip. I just did that. It made me cry, because I had to make over 20 attempts at typing in the jumbled letters and numbers since I could not make out what they should be. I wish they would at least present real words, that way, if not every letter is obvious, at least it is possible to make an intelligent guess.

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      sabrebIadeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I have been submitting my sites to Bing since it opened.
      You can submit to Yahoo, but if you submit to Bing I dont see the use really.
      But here's the link to Yahoo anyway.
      
      http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

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   Jane@CMposted 13 years ago

   Thanks, I didn't know there was a link to submit my profile page...I just saw my hubs ranked higher on Bing.  Now, lets hit Yahoo!

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