Where did the backlinks listing go?
I just logged into my Bing Webmaster Tools, which I started to actually like, and all of a sudden I am hit with a brand new webmaster tools interface, based on Silverlight. Ok.. it looks cool enough and has graphs, right.
Digging around the new tools, I am looking everywhere to see which pages are indexed, and finally found them -- very cool feature to know the last index date and request a recrawl ASAP.
I then ventured onward to look for my old backlinks listing that I was used to. Not there. Nope. Nada.. Nowhere. Why would Bing go and do something crazy like that when they are trying to compete with Google. Perhaps they do not care, or maybe they are still working on the 30 minutes of programming that it would take them to include the backlinks listing.
What are you thoughts about this?
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still confuse how to optimize bing for my site, and i was just thinking to learn it. but hear that, its quite great stepback for them.
Wow, you are way ahead of me, Aaron - I am barely keeping up with Google, no time for Bing:).
Tried signing up for Bing last night but the damn didn't just work 'cause of SilverLight. I'll download that when I've got time and try again. 
Hi Udegbunam,
I haven't used bing enough to notice the change. So far they haven't indexed my site too much. Actually I need to make sure I have their meta in my php heading.
I tried using Bing as well, but I never seem to get any real feedback or signs that Bing is indexing my pages. I'm sticking with Google!
Bing...we are not amused
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