Search Engine Keyword Issue but don't know why
This is a bit of an odd one but wondering if any can share any thoughts on how and why this might be happening.
I was taking a look at Google Webmaster and Bing Web Master tools and noticed an odd thing on Bing.
On the Search keywords on Bing it says that CritiMon came up with the keywords "php error_reporting ---1" (speech marks omitted)
I did a test by loading bing in incognito and doing a search for "php error_reporting" and CritiMon doesn't show up (I gave up looking after the 4th page) but when searching for "php error_reporting ---1" (again speech marks omitted) it comes up on the first page and the 6th result.
I can't replicate this behaviour when using Google Search however. Does anyone know why Bing might be seeing that as a keyword - not sure why the ---1 shows CritiMon but not without it. I've checked the source code and meta tags in case I had a typo where I had accidently put ---1 in the code somehow and Bing was picking that up but doesn't look like there is.
If want to take a look at the page in question it can be found at https://critimon.com/languages/php-error-reporting.php
Thanks
Chris
Interesting one! So the minus sign can be used as a search operator to mean not. You can also use NOT. But what if I want to search for "-1"? It looks like on Bing, you use two negatives (but not speech marks!) So --1 means it will search for "-1". I didn't know this before, but a few tests make that seem likely.
Therefore, ---1 means NOT "-1".
So your site is the best result in bing for php error_reporting with no mention of "-1" anywhere on the page.
I think! :-)
That's interesting, didn't realise that either. Wonder why search for NOT -1 puts CritiMon higher on their page listing for php error_reporting. Might have to put this down to a strange Microsoft quirk - not seen anything remotely similar to this on Google Webmasters.
I've never seen that.