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Bing Maps adds build and share your itinerary

Now in the US and the UK, you can plan your trips using Bing Maps with predefined itineraries that can be customized. Bing has announced that within Bing Maps, you can now build and share your itinerary for upcoming vacations or trips. Bing will let you take predesigned...
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Bing Ads To Disallow Recreational Guns & Gun Accessories

Bing announced they are not going to be allowing advertisements on the Bing Ads search network for recreational guns or any sort of gun accessory after July 1, 2018. This excludes items such as bb guns, paintball guns, or air rifles and accessories or devices that can be attached...
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Bing Ads With Ad Rejection Exceptions On Ad Group Level

Bing announced you can now request ad exceptions on ad rejections on the whole group level, as opposed to individual ads. Here is a screen shot on how to specifically request the ad exception at the group level: It is about 5 clicks but you can select all the ads in the ad group...
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Bing Now Showing Mobile Friendly Label In Mobile Results

If you search using Bing on your mobile device, Bing may now start labeling mobile-ready web pages as mobile-friendly, similar to Google. Here is a screen shot: Google officially launched the mobile-friendly label last November, and as you all know, the mobile friendly algorithm...
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The ultimate guide to using Bing Webmaster Tools – Part 2

In Part 2 of this series on Bing Webmaster Tools, contributor and Bing Chief Evangelist Christi Olson reviews four BWT sections: My Sites, Dashboards, Configure My Site and Reports & Data. Bing Webmaster Tools (BWT) has a lot to offer. Are you ready to dig in to learn more?...
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How Bing is enhancing search and apparently growing as a result

Sure, Google is still bigger, but contributor Adam Dorfman notes that Bing has been introducing significant innovations. Here’s why the underdog search engine is worth another look. When Microsoft announced strong annual financial results July 19, the growth of t...
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Bing Webmaster Tools API Down For Over 5 Days

Mike Sullivan noticed that the Bing Webmaster API has been down for over five days now. I had him share a screen shot with me of it failing and he did so. In short, he was surprised to see no one complaining even after five days of it being offline. Mike said on Twitter...
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Bing Search Results Now Showing JSON-LD Support

The other week we reported that Bing added JSON-LD support for schema and markup. Well, now if you look at some of the Bing search results and see the markup, some of those results are powered off of JSON-LD and not the Microdata or RDFa formats. Brodie Clark posted an example on...
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Bing Ads With Enhanced Targeting Settings & Dimensions Tab

Bing Ads announced yesterday they launched enhancements to the targeting settings and dimensions tab. Specifically it now allows you to manage your targeting in bulk and shows you performance metrics inline through new location targeting, ad schedule targeting, and device...
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Bing Building Massive Index For App Indexing Content

I covered this news at Search Engine Land last week, but now it is making its way to the SEO community. Bing is beginning to build their index of native app content for iOS, Android and even their own Windows 10 apps, for search and discoverability purposes. Bing said: Now that...