bing - Not showing Irish site in Ireland Only listings...

Scotty #

If I search for my keyword on Bing I am the first result but if I switch to Narrow by Region>Only in Ireland, I don't show up at all!!

On Google I am first for both global and Pages from Ireland.

The server is in Ireland and the domain is .ie

Anyone come across this and know how to fix??


(yea I know only about 3% use bing but every little helps)

mneylon

You'd need to talk to Bing ..

From my own experience their "local" search is pretty awful

seachto7

agreed.

jmcc

Are you sure the server IP is Irish? Bing always seem to have a few problems with localised search. There's a Bing forum on Webmasterworld ( http://www.webmasterworld.com/msn_microsoft_search/ ) that might be worth trying.

Regards...jmcc

brianbaru

Another possibility is that the links pointing towards your site are not Irish. Links from sites based in Ireland will raise your rankings in Ireland more than those based outside Ireland, where as links from outside Ireland will raise them in Bing.com but have very little impact on Irish bing

Scotty #

jmcc wrote: »

Are you sure the server IP is Irish? Bing always seem to have a few problems with localised search.

Yep, IP is certainly Irish.

From what I'm reading online Bing's local search is more or less useless.

jmcc

Scotty # wrote: »

Yep, IP is certainly Irish.

Is it on a full /24 designated as Irish (IE) or a subnetted IP designated as being IE. Microsoft used to have problems with subnetted IPs and tended to give the /24's (256 addresses or a Class C) country code the priority. The .ie should really clarify things for Bing though.

From what I'm reading online Bing's local search is more or less useless.

Yep. The web outside of the USA tends to be more complex and I don't know if Bing has the right people to do local search properly.

Regards...jmcc