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While focusing on social media, providing good content to share will automatically act as a viral promotion and avoid the impression of self promotion.

I like the secret: Having quality and relevant (to that part of the SERP) content is the best thing you can do.

Many webmasters scramble around for backlinks, social media, article marketing, etc and totally forget the big picture--Content.

Build a quality content website and people will come one way or another.

I'm using the 3. After a few months, i think twitter is the best for bringing some related traffic. Facebook it's far from perfect for many niches, bringing almost zero. Bing, well...Bing it's MSN Live, social media links play an important part of Bing rankings.

I recently helped a friend put up the website for his business. Bing indexed and cached it very quickly. We're still waiting for Google to do the same. Yahoo also was fast on the draw. It's ranking high on both Bing and Yahoo. Gotta say that I am having more respect as time passes for Bing.

It looks like the old advice about good, relevant content still holds. But, now it is more important than ever to have a variety of means by which that content is provided.

Bing is interesting. I have found more irrelevant search results in Bing than I do in Google. They are still young though. They don't have the index that Google does yet. As one commenter put it "the real test will come months from now". As they continue to grow will they have the staying power to last and deliver solid results, or will they go the way of Cuil. In a few months will Microsoft's millions of advertising dollars that have been invested be all for naught or will the be able to deliver what they advertise.

They themselves even said in their "New Features Relevant to Webmasters" document in the section "How does Bing affect my SEO efforts" they come out and say "it doesn't." As far as Bing and SEO are concerned is steady as she goes, maintain heading, and whatever other nautical phrase you can think of that means keep doing what we're doing.

Great post. I know traffic is probably high now for Bing, but I think the real test will come months from now. I'm just curious how long the momentum will last. One thing that's frustrating at times about social media is how invisible it is to search engine spiders. It would be nice to be able to bypass some of this, but then again you have the problem with spammers, which will never go away.

I dont know why but I am not getting even a single user from Bing. Can anyone help me out

Creating traffic through social media is all about content syndication. Once you have high-quality, unique content, and you expose that to social platforms, people will replicate it and promote it.

SEO will come as a side-effect, as people link to your content because they will benefit from doing so.

So focus on creating high-quality content.

Leo

I am very fond of Microsoft so I think Bing is going to be a big splash in the search engine field. Google and Yahoo, Bing and Altavista, Youtube and Facebook as well as Twitter will all play a part in getting traffic to our sites.

Mary

This is an interesting time for search engines. Bing is center stage with Microsoft's huge marketing budget, but in the last few weeks there have been a number of new search engine announcements, all of which have the potential to affect us online marketers. More at http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/facebook-twitter-collecta-crowdeye.html.

I am frustrated with Bing. I cannot find my sites (2) there, even by keying in the entire website address! I have submitted my sites to their business listing process, but still no results.

I'm wondering why my sites come up as listed on directory sites, but they don't come up in a direct search on Bing even when I use the same search terms that bring up my sites on the first page of Google, Yahoo and (formerly) MSN. Is it just going to take more time for the bots to crawl the web........or what?

Anybody else experiencing this?

Hi,

You comment that

"Don't seek links from sites whose content isn't worthy of your endorsement."

However, when you do article marketing, you get links from a bunch of sites that you cannot control if they are worthy of your endorsement and Article marketing is supposed to be very succesful for SEO.

Are you telling that we should not do article marketing if we want to get Bing top positions? or how can this be solved?

Regards,

Laurent