Today KeywordEnvy has released two updates which now allow you to view which exact URL within your domain is ranking for each keyword in the search engine results.  You can now view this information from your Rankings tab, or export the information directly through our API.

Rankings Tab
To view your top ranking URLs for each of your keywords, click on the report icon () beside each ranking job.  You will see the URL at the bottom of your rankings report.

API Export
To view your ranking URLs , you can either access the “getjob” or “getjobs” method.  ”getjob” will return all jobs for whatever website you are trying to export data for.  For each job, it will tell you the most recent ranking, and the URL associated with that ranking.  ”getjobs” will return a history of all rankings for each of your jobs.  Beside each of these rankings (either daily, weekly or monthly depending on your plan), you will now see the URL which we tracked in the search engine results.

We are working on more updates to both our rankings pages and API, so stay tuned.

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SEOs are waking up this morning to the news that Microsoft Bing will now be providing the search results for Yahoo’s search engine.  You may be wondering what the implications will be for you and your search engine rankings.

Essentially, it means that the volume of searches being made at Yahoo will stay the same (or may see an increase from being in the news), but that your rankings in the Yahoo index will be replaced by your rankings in the Bing index.

This could be a good or a bad thing for you depending on which search engine you rank more highly in.

The change will not be made overnight, since Yahoo! and Microsoft will have to wait for regulatory approval before the deal can commence.  While we have time to prepare, you should begin to focus on your Bing rankings, which will account for both Yahoo and Bing search rankings in the future.

Ways to increase your Bing rankings

1) Ensure your website has been submitted to Bing Webmaster Center
Submit each of your websites to Bing’s index, and make sure that you submit your sitemap url.  From here, you can monitor the page score of your top ranked pages, and you can check for crawl issues such as 404 errors.  This tool is also handy for monitoring the backlinks that Bing has detected for you, and they have a very useful tool for checking your page relevancy against different keywords.

2) Go through basic SEO best practices.  Give your website a checkup.
Ensure that all of your pages have relevant title and description tags.  Make sure that they are not stuffed with keywords, and that they are relevant to your page content.  Ensure that you make use of H1 and H2 tags for headlines and the most relevant phrases on your pages.  Ensure that your title tags are not the same for every page on your website.  SEOMoz has a fantastic article on SEO best practices if you want to read more.

3) Submit your site to Bing
Perhaps this should have been the first point, but if you aren’t already listed in Bing’s results, submit your website.  To check if Bing has indexed you, perform a search on Bing for site:yourwebsite.com.

Ok, I’ve optimized my website for Bing.  What now?

If you follow those simple steps, Bing will easily index you, and give you feedback of any issues your website may have.  Follow best practices, and you should be ranking for your main terms.

Microsoft Bing is apparently very interested in integrating with Yahoo’s existing search innovations, such as BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) and SearchMoney, so services running search engines on those APIs will also begin to serve Bing results.  SEOs will quickly see that their Bing rankings are going to start being much, much more important when they are optimizing their websites.

Today Microsoft released their new search engine, Bing.  Bing has replaced the search results for live.com and msn.com and all other portals which use Microsoft technology for search.

We have added support for tracking Bing rankings, and any of your current ranking jobs for MSN or Live will now report the ranking on Bing.  Within the next week, we will transition your MSN and Live jobs over to Bing, and remove MSN and Live from our reports.

You can now also see search referrals from Bing.com in your live search feed.

Congratulations to the Microsoft team on their new search engine!

Today we responded to a customer with questions on how to use the Data Availability API.  We thought it would be helpful to share the response with you here, in lieue of more detailed documentation.  If you create an app based on our API, let us know about how you are using your data!

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Over the past week there have been issues with some of our ranking servers returning no results for Yahoo rankings.  This has now been resolved and all nodes are now returning accurate rankings.

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This is also a good time to mention that KeywordEnvy rankings are unaffected by the recent and ongoing changes to the Google referral url.

We would like to announce that we have added more keyword ranking servers, so many of the issues we have been having with slow or unupdated rankings have now been fixed.

Please contact us if you experience further problems with rankings not updated.  KeywordEnvy uses many servers in order to track your keyword ranking statistics.

Today, we are proud to launch our Data Availability API. This API will allow you to export all data which you have saved in your KeywordEnvy account.

It has been very important from the beginning for us to enable you to export your data so that you can put it into your own marketing reports and keyword reports.

Version 1.0 of our API supports the following methods:

1. Sites - export a list of the sites that you monitor with KeywordEnvy
2. Jobs - export a list of the keywords you are monitoring on each Search Engine
3. Traffic - export the incoming searches on your sites
4. Rankings - export each day’s rankings for each of your monitoring jobs
5. Goals

   - export a list of conversion goals you have created

6. Conversions washington eli movie - export the conversions we have tracked on each of your goals

To start using the API, log into your account and visit our “Export Your Data” page. You can generate an API Key there to get started. Our API currently exports in XML only, but we plan to add more support if it is requested.

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KeywordEnvy is about to celebrate our 1 year anniversary, so we gave our customers an early present by upgrading our servers over the weekend. The new upgrade should mean faster reports, and will allow us to support some new features that will be released in the next version of KeywordEnvy in November.

To give you a tease, KeywordEnvy will celebrate our 1 year anniversary by launching new features, including our API, and some enhanced reporting that will help you calculate both keyword value, and customer value for each of your terms.

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Today, Facebook integrated Live web search into their site search bar.  When searching on Facebook, you can select whether to search Facebook, or to search the web.  

Facebook has chosen their own style for the search results, rather than the traditional search results style used by Live, Yahoo and Google.  The search results are not exactly the same as those returned at live.com, but they are close.  

One very interesting feature of their implementation is that Facebook returns the ranking of the website in their referral link, making it very easy for analytics suites to display the keyword ranking for each search referral they send. 

We’ve already added support for this at KeywordEnvy, so you can view search referrals from Facebook in your incoming search feed.  We also plan to add support for tracking your rankings in Facebook, but we’d like to see how much this new search feature is used by Facebook users first.

A new search engine launched yesterday, which claims to be able to index the web at 1/10th the cost that Google spends indexing.  The new startup, founded by search experts Tom Costello, Anna Patterson and Russell Power, the latter two being former Google employees.

Cuil (pronounced “cool”) differentiates itself from other search engines through it’s algorithm and through it’s results interface.  While most search engines favor the classic style of Google’s results, Cuil shows results in boxes in a 3×3 grid, pulling what they think it the most relevant image from each result page.  If Cuil gains in popularity, it would result in a massive shock to how we traditionally think about search engine rankings.  Results shown in grid form are hard to number, and Cuil floats the results, so the 3×3 grid doesn’t always line up perfectly.  This means that whether we number the results right to left, top to bottom, or by distance from top-left, there will be no perfect way to measure your Cuil ranking.

Cuil’s algorithm focuses on categorizing websites, even when they don’t categorize themselves.  In their results, Cuil attempts to suggest other categories that may interest you, and it does a fairly good job of grouping sites into categories.  In terms of their index, they currently index 121,617,892,992 pages, and it’s growing fast.  Searches that I made last night for certain websites turned up no results, but the same search now shows the websites I was looking for.  They claim that this focus on directing searchers into categories, rather than typing different search terms, will deliver better results.

At KeywordEnvy, we’re now tracking referrals from Cuil in your live search feed.  You’ll be able to see if people are using it to find your website.