Download The Bing iPhone App
Are you looking to download the Bing iPhone App? It’ll be coming very soon. In fact, in the near future, you can start to see a lot of Bing mixed into other applications on the iPhone. On Aug. 27th, 2009 Microsoft released a brand new software developer kit geared towards making it less complicated for Apple iPhone developers to incorporate Bing into their applications.
What does that mean to you? Well, if you’re not ranking well on Bing, it means that you could be potentially missing out on a lot of traffic to your site. As you may know, Google is the default search engine for the iPhone Safari web browser. People have the choice to use Yahoo! but the switch has to be manually made. Lastly, if users want to use Bing, they have to actually type the URL into the browser.
With over 21 million iPhones sold, and having Bing migrated into various applications that use search, there will soon be a resource of traffic available for grabs. Whether you take advantage of this traffic is up to you. All that is needed is to assure that your site is optimized for Bing. Ultimately, I suggest to optimize your site for local search using localized keywords such as zip codes and surrounding cities. Not only will this help your ranking in Bing, but you may find that your re-optimizations help improve your rankings in Google and Yahoo! too.
How much mobile SEO focus do you personally apply to your site? Do you keep track of your mobile traffic? What things do you do towards optimizing your site for mobile users? Lastly, do you think having Bing incorporated into iPhone Apps will help Microsoft? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
January 13th, 2010 at 5:47 am
The iphone is still on my shopping list. I wish the price would go down a bit so I could afford one.
June 29th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
I just recently purchased an iphone a 3g model and it helped my productivity, especially in the seo world, dead time is no longer that, if i am normally doing something where I have to wait around such as appointments and what not I can use that as quality seo time , social networking twitter etc. Now all we need is more SEO tools
July 3rd, 2010 at 7:10 pm
Great write up. The iPhone is truly amazing and I don’t like being without it. This time last year I had jumped in a pool with my iPhone and it was dead. I had to wait 9 days before I was able to get a new one. The phone I had was a cheap go phone. I really love all the games that can be downloaded to the iPhone. The best part about the iPhone to me is the ability to check emails on the fly. Thanks for the information.
August 19th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Sorry, but I don’t agree with you here. I do not like that approach. But it’s a good start off. Perhaps with some increased information I could manage to understand it better?