The Bing community blog is picking up, Kudos to the eminent blogger from webmaster center team “Rick DeJarnette”, for putting up such nice write ups.

Yes, I am about to put forward my thoughts on the much hyped, yet appreciated blog post by Bing:
http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/webmaster/archive/2009/11/20/link-building-for-smart-webmasters-no-dummies-here-sem-101.aspx

Bing - Link Building Methodology

But what has easily been escaping everyone’s eye is what I intend to throw some light on! While, Google might be the bull of Search market, none can today deny the presence of other big search engines running tough to compete, with Bing being one of the toppers in the row!

For the first time, Bing has come out and spoken out loud about its expectations of link building process done by webmasters online. Bing’s formula for things to do and to avoid for effective link building is, unsurprisingly, similar to that advertised by Google with a point more or less different or new.

Now that is what all of us webmasters need to know about very well, don’t you think!? And hey, check this out: Bing too counts quality links as a priority when determining the ranking of a website.
Bing’s formula clearly goes on to say that expecting instant success and satisfaction is a wrong approach and that a continual efforts and creativity are the key elements to stick to.

In other words fellows, things to avoid while link building are basically a list of manipulating and violating elements that are often used to speed up as well as to influence the route for marketing, through search route. When your objective of link building is good and improved web ranking, Bing clearly says no to any hidden links used on a web page and linking to known spam sites.
And as if that wasn’t enough, Bing also rejects process of exchanging with bad web neighbors and paid link farms.

But believe it or not, I have to agree with Bing here now. Having inbound links from a relevant blog is good, while getting huge traffic of inbound links from unrelated and inappropriate sites or blogs is totally erroneous, just to get our website ranked high within a short time span, isn’t cool anymore (Ah, well, it won’t work either, anyways )!
And just so you know, in case you don’t agree to me, Bing holds a stern perspective towards those found violating and manipulating the link building codes for “Marketing through Search”.

If you need to know stuff that you should do, to get better rankings with Bing, read on…
- Bing favors the idea of publishing professional articles on web based article directories, as well as informative and useful, but to the point, online press releases.

- Creating a blog/forum on a website is always an added advantage to that business site, in terms of online marketing. -

- If you don’t have a blog on your website, you can always partake in other blogs/forums sharing information regarding your site or business.

- Bing expects you to stick to the theme, so I suggest it would be wiser to constrain to relevant blogs and forums only, as well as publish your business related articles only. Only by participating in and publishing the related blogs and information can you attract relevant media people, product reviewers, industry experts and bloggers.

- Notifying online users of new content through email newsletter is a right approach.

And lastly, going advanced by connecting to social networking sites is the new “must-to-do” approach to spread your website links.

Phew! These are what I call Bing’s formula to efficient and effective link building.  And believe it or not, I totally endorse it! 

I know what you guys must be thinking by now. You can’t find much difference between the approach or Google and Bing when it comes to Link Building, can you? You’re right! But although Bing has a simple formula for good link building which clearly resembles to what Google works on, I truly believe that with more and more Search Engines laying effective guidelines out-in-open, people like you and me would be better equipped to understand the pulse of Search Engines and achieve better web ranking systems for our clients.

Let me know what you think!

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If you are someone whose 75% of the day is spent on getting socially indulged with friends on various social websites and networking sites, then chances are that you, like me, would go for a browser that would give you more than a ‘Browser’.
A web browser like Flock gives great social networking and media support as well as a feature loaded facilities to online social mongers, so it’s kinda odd to see its numbers still falling steadily! We decided to reason it out. Have a look!

We explored Flock as a user, just to find out it’s been planned well, with its freshly modified and updated 2.5 version. What we could make out of the initial glimpse of it was that this times, Flock is back with its new avatar, packed with more features and a completely new and fresh look that is bound to lure most of you towards it. We think Flock is an amazing tool that displays almost everything related to social networking sites, right in front of you, so you are just one click away from all your important social websites.

We would like to term Flock as a mixture of Brilliance and Technology. Usually, Social networking browsers, such as Google Chrome, are powered with the convenience like easy picture uploading, blogging, chat and much more. But Flock is not as huge as Google Chrome, so it’s just a plainer and more simpler form of Google Chrome.

But hey, that doesn’t make it behind in any way! The new Flock includes Twitter functionality that allows Twitter-fans to save Twitter searches, read Twitter replies and even more. And yes, if there is a Twitter, there has to be a Facebook as well, and that too, with a Facebook Chat feature! With the ability to use Facebook chat on any webpage and the facility to drag your web stuff into your chats makes it not just cool, but super cool!

We also have something for you guys that would surprise you all. Its new innovative feature, FlockCast! (We surely were surprised!). It seems like the ultimate power to broadcast messages to various networking websites like Bebo, Myspace and many more, with the super easy One click step.
Being a web browser that supports maximum features, add-ons, Media RSS, theme support and painless browsing, it’s a shock to see Flock not even close to being recognized as a favorite among Social networking buffs, who still prefer simple and easy GOOGLE over a new and stylish FLOCK.

We think Flock being a Flop does not have anything to do with its website, as according to us, the fault lies in its not-so-good advertising strategies… or may be, this super-cool web browser really is a little jinxed!! What do you think?

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For all you photo sharing fans, the much awaited is here! Shutterfly has come up with a whole new feature of ‘Video Sharing’. Isn’t it just amazing? With new video sharing facility to offer, this photo sharing site is truly on its job of targeting more and more visitors and online surfers.

Clearly, it can be seen as an attempt to be among one of those photo sharing sites that also have video sharing capabilities. In short, it’s the competition that gets things done. In order to run its new video sharing service, Shutterfly makes use of a smart and modern video hosting site called Motionbox. The Motionbox site driven video sharing technology on Shutterfly allows fans a more convenient way to enjoy there purpose, of being on site like Shuttefly. Way to go shutterfly!

Now when a Shutterfly member, like me, uploads a video on the site, it will automatically get stored on the Motionbox account of that member. On the other hand, if the video is uploaded directly on Motionbox, the member would be given an option to post the same video on his/her Shutterfly account. Sounds interesting.

With that being said, we can now share the videos on our preferred social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. Apparently this service is not just an attractive addition to the site, but is also quite easy to use and enjoy. Although free account members will face limited storage space for their video uploads good enough for only ten video clips uploads, Whereas paid members (with #30 per year) are powered with facilities like HD-quality playback, limitless downloads and more.

Current services of Shutterfly includes photo sharing services as well as printing services which allows them to enjoy more than a feature of printing photos, it lets them get a print of their photos and memories on cards, apparel, mugs and more. With the launch of this new feature, we are hoping to look forward to addition of customized DVD clips. If it does offer the customized DVDs, Shutterfly followers can put a DVD together with pictures of their loved ones and family members together.

An endeavor towards becoming a must-to visit website for sharing photos and video clips, Shutterfly is moving towards becoming a steady part of the competitive dot-com industry it seems. All thanks to the competitors for innovating things and we the people are here to enjoy the benefits of it. : )

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