Not ranking as well in Yahoo/Bing as in Google. Why?
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For my top 132 keywords, my target ranks an average of 7 positions lower in Bing and an average of 9 positions lower in Yahoo. Does anyone have some good resources to read, or any tips on why we would rank so much poorer in Bing/Yahoo than in google?
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I don't know any resources that talk a lot about bing/yahoo. I've read that yahoo/bing are more biased towards having the keywords in the domain.
I would do a bit of research on the url's that rank above you in the SERP's and look at things the higher ranking url's have in common.
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