After welcoming 2010 with huge fun and happiness it is now time to sum up the important things the SEO niche discovered in 2009. SEO is an ever changing field where old techniques and tricks get replaced with the new ones. 2009 was no new to this as it also saw a few new things.


For most of the SEO Company topping Google is on the top priority list but 2009 saw a good market for people looking for tips and tricks on optimisation for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. Bing is quite different from Google and supports Flash animation. It is also able to deliver quite good results.

Here are a few things that kept the SEOs busy for 2009 like

•    With the launch of Bing most of the SEOs were researching about its parameters of ranking a site and working on ways which can get them to the top of Bing. In their findings it was clear that Bing laid more emphasis on keywords and less on links.
•    The local search results by Bing were more relevant and trustworthy. Many SEO companies also diverted their efforts to know how to optimize for local searches.
•    The importance Google did not decrease with the introduction of Bing. In fact Google still was the top search engine and I guess will be the best for this year as well. Many news things related to Google came to light.
•    Link building is the top SEO technique which can affect the ranking of a site. 2009 had some new developments in the use and abuse of this technique.
•    We also learnt about a few SEO mistakes which can badly affect your ranking. These were more related to the keyword selection and link building.

Let us see what 2010 has in store for us and how well Bing does. Also we might find some new techniques to rank higher on Bing and other search engines.