@dstiles
Yeah, but I did used to hang about here quite a bunch personally years ago, so I should have been able to recall the situation. ;)
Now, any chance you can point me to a URL with that statement around rDNS lookups resolving in a certain manner? If I have something solid I can grab my toga and run through the halls here with a lit torch looking for an owner to discuss the situation with. :)
As for being around persistantly, you'll find sometimes I disappear, but that's mostly because I travel a bunch for Bing. To be honest, I love hanging in the forums with my peeps, as this is where I came from (I used to mod over at Search Engine Forums back in the day). :)
Couple of ways to reach me if you don't find me responsive here:
1 - post up in the Bing Webmaster forums - that I partol as a function of my daily work. Plus we have support staff there who can alert me to items people post specific to me, when they don't see an answer quickly.
2 - @duaneforrester - now, you may not like the short responses, because with only so many characters there's often not enough room to find a polite way to say "your baby is ugly", if such should be the case. ;)
As an FYI, I was an inhouse SEO for over a decade before taking this role with Bing Webmaster, so the pains you guys feel, I understand first hand.
@scooterdude
Yep...
1 - quality, unique content
2 - fresh, quality, unique content
3 - sites that users frequent tend to fair better
4 - skip the tricks - we've seen them all, and while 99% of them we simply let slide, you'd hate to hit that 1% category
5 - social signals are starting to matter more - can't really say how much more, but look at it this way - if you're active socially, and users like you and visit your site, we see their actions
6 - look into
rich snippets [schema.org]
7 - yes, inbound links matter - focus on quality instead of quantity. How few links does it take to help rank a page of yours well? Often very few. ;)
8 - Bing doc on
successful indexing [onlinehelp.microsoft.com] with us
9 - Bing doc on
inserting individual URLs [onlinehelp.microsoft.com] into our index
10 - whole mess of
other docs [onlinehelp.microsoft.com] related to using the Bing Webmaster tools, indexing, seo and more
