June 8th, 2010 admin
Just noticed a quick flaw which works with IE but not Firefox. I had a table where I was specifying the width. This was working fine in IE, but strangely Firefox was ignoring the width and scaling the table to match the width of the contents?
Turns out I was specifying the width as an integer without appending “px”. So width=100 tells IE to use 100 pixel width but Firefox ignores it. Change it to “width=100px” and both are happy…
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June 8th, 2010 admin
Whilst working on a new SEO tool which will use the Bing API, I found an interesting statement in the Terms Of Use:
You will not, and will not permit your users or other third parties to:
directly or indirectly generate impressions or clicks on Bing results, or authorize or encourage others to do so, though any automated, deceptive, fraudulent, or other invalid means.
Does this mean that Bing use CTR and Impressions as a ranking factor?
This has been dismissed before as a ranking factor for Google before due to the possibility of falsifying results by paying for clicks. Has Bing found a way around this – or are they hoping that this ranking factor won’t be abused?
Bing API Terms Of Use
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June 8th, 2010 admin
Since Bing and Yahoo announced their intentions to work together there has been speculation on whether Bing would discontinue support for Site Explorer.
Site Explorer gives users an insight into the backlinks on any domain and is an important tool in the SEO workplace.
Sasi Pathasarathy, Program Manager for Microsoft’s Bing search engine announced at SMX that Bing would continue support for Site Explorer if users want it.
Lets hope enough people can persuade MS to continue support for this useful tool.
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