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Ok so good news is my site is on the first page of Bing for my keyword. However I have something embarrassing that shows up in the description and I have no idea how it got the
Hey, there!
I haven't been able to find that term in your site source so I assume this is something that's being generated by either a plug in or the theme. In fact I often suggest against using free WP themes.
Unfortunately I can't point out where the issues is but this might give you some ideas.
Yea I also assumed it might be the theme. Just doesn't make sense. I contacted bing and all they suggested I have bing crawl the site again. Something about a cached page. I'm not 100% sure. So I added a sitemap to bing webmaster tools and increased the crawl frequency. Maybe next time its crawled that won't be their. If it is then I will probably start all over with a paid theme. I don't have many plugins installed. Mainly yoast, askimet, a facebook one. I'll post when I find the resolution.
Brandy, I see the search result is dated July 22, 2013. Is/was your site hosted elsewhere or at WA?
Check the meta description for that post, as well as for the Bartenura image, in your SEO plugin.
Are you using Yoast? I've seen in forums a few people mention that Bing and Yahoo show the wrong text in the search results, so you could ask Yoast support if they have any advice for you.
As an extra precaution, use FTP or cPanel to check your image folder in your hosting account and make sure that the only image files you have there are the ones you uploaded and nothing else. I know, weird to check images, but I had something similar occurrence and it turned out to be a hack of one of my images that did nothing else but add extra text to my image description.
You might also try Bing Support here:
https://support.discoverbing.com/
Select the first choice "Bing" and then "Search Engine Problems". Ask them for advice and how you can have it removed. Don't know whether they will oblige.
I can't think of anything else at the moment. ~Jude
Thank you so much! I will try all the recommendations. I had not thought about checking the image. I got it from linkshare.com the affiliate network so I thought it was safe.
Oh yeah I started using Yoast recently. I was just the all-in-seo tool recommend by WA but my search results were not coming up the way I wanted them so Yoast was recommend as an alternative. I haven't quite got Yoast all setup yet though.
Yoast is a good tool but needs to be set up correctly. Not sure if it has anything to do with the image, but it is worth checking. In the meantime, why not change the text in that section of your site where the intruding phrase is in Bing, and hopefully it will be re-indexed soon, especially if it is not ranking equally as well in G yet. If that is the one and only time that it happened, it is probably not a big concern and you can move on. If you do decide to contact Bing support, let us know what happens. ~ Jude
Bing basically suggested it be re-indexed. So i setup bing webmaster tools and suggested how frequently they crawl. As of today it still remains the same. It's nice that I rank higher in bing but still disturbs me.
Well, at least Bing had a suggestion for you. You will need to give it more time before it is re-indexed. If the problem is in your free theme code, it could come back again.
I use Attracta SEO to submit my site weekly to the search engines. It is free to use, and it might help you get your site re-indexed a bit faster.
https://www.attracta.com/
~ Jude
Yep that fixed the problem. It took some time by it was finally re-indexed and now shows my latest blog post info in the description but does not have the "sex cam" verbiage in it. I can't imagine where it came from but it must have something to do with that post only. I might just delete the post just for good measure I'm not really sure! Anyway thanks so much for the help! I will definitely use attracta to keep it re-indexed more frequently.
Glad it is resolved, at least for now. No, don't delete the post and do make sure to keep the permalink address as it is now. If you want to edit or update the post, that's okay to do at any time, but do not remove or change the permalink address as it indexed accurately and ranking now. Check it again 5 days after your next site submission with Attracta to make sure it is still okay. They should send you a reminder by email to do your submission. That's it. ~ Jude
That is insane! I just checked out your ranking on Bing and yeah I see the same "sex cam" tidbit. That's quite strange. I do not have a solution to remove it but I hope someone can help.
I did enjoy your website, by the way. It has that nice, crisp-wine look.
Good luck!
thanks yeah I'm really baffled by it! I'm really dreading having to start all over again but most of the remedies I've found say to back everything up and start over with a fresh theme, plugins etc. That's going to take days to fix and i'm not 100% sure that will even fix the problem.
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Embarrassing find in Bing Search Results
Ok so good news is my site is on the first page of Bing for my keyword. However I have something embarrassing that shows up in the description and I have no idea how it got the
Hey, there!
I haven't been able to find that term in your site source so I assume this is something that's being generated by either a plug in or the theme. In fact I often suggest against using free WP themes.
Unfortunately I can't point out where the issues is but this might give you some ideas.
Yea I also assumed it might be the theme. Just doesn't make sense. I contacted bing and all they suggested I have bing crawl the site again. Something about a cached page. I'm not 100% sure. So I added a sitemap to bing webmaster tools and increased the crawl frequency. Maybe next time its crawled that won't be their. If it is then I will probably start all over with a paid theme. I don't have many plugins installed. Mainly yoast, askimet, a facebook one. I'll post when I find the resolution.
Brandy, I see the search result is dated July 22, 2013. Is/was your site hosted elsewhere or at WA?
Check the meta description for that post, as well as for the Bartenura image, in your SEO plugin.
Are you using Yoast? I've seen in forums a few people mention that Bing and Yahoo show the wrong text in the search results, so you could ask Yoast support if they have any advice for you.
As an extra precaution, use FTP or cPanel to check your image folder in your hosting account and make sure that the only image files you have there are the ones you uploaded and nothing else. I know, weird to check images, but I had something similar occurrence and it turned out to be a hack of one of my images that did nothing else but add extra text to my image description.
You might also try Bing Support here:
https://support.discoverbing.com/
Select the first choice "Bing" and then "Search Engine Problems". Ask them for advice and how you can have it removed. Don't know whether they will oblige.
I can't think of anything else at the moment. ~Jude
Thank you so much! I will try all the recommendations. I had not thought about checking the image. I got it from linkshare.com the affiliate network so I thought it was safe.
Oh yeah I started using Yoast recently. I was just the all-in-seo tool recommend by WA but my search results were not coming up the way I wanted them so Yoast was recommend as an alternative. I haven't quite got Yoast all setup yet though.
Yoast is a good tool but needs to be set up correctly. Not sure if it has anything to do with the image, but it is worth checking. In the meantime, why not change the text in that section of your site where the intruding phrase is in Bing, and hopefully it will be re-indexed soon, especially if it is not ranking equally as well in G yet. If that is the one and only time that it happened, it is probably not a big concern and you can move on. If you do decide to contact Bing support, let us know what happens. ~ Jude
Bing basically suggested it be re-indexed. So i setup bing webmaster tools and suggested how frequently they crawl. As of today it still remains the same. It's nice that I rank higher in bing but still disturbs me.
Well, at least Bing had a suggestion for you. You will need to give it more time before it is re-indexed. If the problem is in your free theme code, it could come back again.
I use Attracta SEO to submit my site weekly to the search engines. It is free to use, and it might help you get your site re-indexed a bit faster.
https://www.attracta.com/
~ Jude
Yep that fixed the problem. It took some time by it was finally re-indexed and now shows my latest blog post info in the description but does not have the "sex cam" verbiage in it. I can't imagine where it came from but it must have something to do with that post only. I might just delete the post just for good measure I'm not really sure! Anyway thanks so much for the help! I will definitely use attracta to keep it re-indexed more frequently.
Glad it is resolved, at least for now. No, don't delete the post and do make sure to keep the permalink address as it is now. If you want to edit or update the post, that's okay to do at any time, but do not remove or change the permalink address as it indexed accurately and ranking now. Check it again 5 days after your next site submission with Attracta to make sure it is still okay. They should send you a reminder by email to do your submission. That's it. ~ Jude
That is insane! I just checked out your ranking on Bing and yeah I see the same "sex cam" tidbit. That's quite strange. I do not have a solution to remove it but I hope someone can help.
I did enjoy your website, by the way. It has that nice, crisp-wine look.
Good luck!
thanks yeah I'm really baffled by it! I'm really dreading having to start all over again but most of the remedies I've found say to back everything up and start over with a fresh theme, plugins etc. That's going to take days to fix and i'm not 100% sure that will even fix the problem.
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Ok so I made it onto the first page of Google using my keyword. However the title and description are not what I put into the all-in-one SEO tool. This is a screenshot of wha
I suggest you check your settings in AIOSEO. If you have the wrong box ticked your meta description will not be picked up by Google. If that is OK I can only assume Google has not yet picked up the change.
try using the plugin Yoast SEO this is what i use and frankly i think its a little bit better the allinoneseo i tried both i like yoast better
Hi Javier. I've heard of Yoast but don't know much about it. Is it free, paid and why do you think it is better.? Just curious and I like to get the opinions of others with experience. Thx.
just save those data in a text file in your desktop and reinitialize the plug-in (remove and install it all over again) and put the data back in it place after reinstalling it. maybe this will resolve the problem.
Hello
i'm not sure if those SEO settings are applied actually or not, but I did a little test on your website and the Title + the Meta Description are not present in your page, therefor google can't catch them.
When did you change the description?
Sometimes it takes google weeks or even months to switch to your new meta tags in the search results.
Actually google has been crawling my site almost daily. I've been checking my ranking and each day its different one day it page 4 next day it was 5 then next day page 1 at the bottom. So I know its crawling daily and adjusting rankings daily. I just can't figure out why they are using my last post for the title and meta description.
You might want to double check all your setting in the all in one seo pack. Also, Google will change your descriptions depending on the search query. They change it to give the searcher a better match, or something like that.
It might also, be just a matter of time. Maybe Google hasn't crawled your site recently. The more often you add content the more Google will crawl. Also make sure you have a sitemap.
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Ok so I made it onto the first page of Google using my keyword. However the title and description are not what I put into the all-in-one SEO tool. This is a screenshot of wha
I suggest you check your settings in AIOSEO. If you have the wrong box ticked your meta description will not be picked up by Google. If that is OK I can only assume Google has not yet picked up the change.
try using the plugin Yoast SEO this is what i use and frankly i think its a little bit better the allinoneseo i tried both i like yoast better
Hi Javier. I've heard of Yoast but don't know much about it. Is it free, paid and why do you think it is better.? Just curious and I like to get the opinions of others with experience. Thx.
just save those data in a text file in your desktop and reinitialize the plug-in (remove and install it all over again) and put the data back in it place after reinstalling it. maybe this will resolve the problem.
Hello
i'm not sure if those SEO settings are applied actually or not, but I did a little test on your website and the Title + the Meta Description are not present in your page, therefor google can't catch them.
When did you change the description?
Sometimes it takes google weeks or even months to switch to your new meta tags in the search results.
Actually google has been crawling my site almost daily. I've been checking my ranking and each day its different one day it page 4 next day it was 5 then next day page 1 at the bottom. So I know its crawling daily and adjusting rankings daily. I just can't figure out why they are using my last post for the title and meta description.
You might want to double check all your setting in the all in one seo pack. Also, Google will change your descriptions depending on the search query. They change it to give the searcher a better match, or something like that.
It might also, be just a matter of time. Maybe Google hasn't crawled your site recently. The more often you add content the more Google will crawl. Also make sure you have a sitemap.
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Wow! I hope you fix it soon.