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Has anyone else had this issue? I have a website that's about 5 months old. It's ranking pretty decently on Google, but on Bing there is NOTHING that's ranking, reason being t
This is a common issue faced by website owners, especially with newer sites, where Bing's indexing lags behind Google's. Let's break down the potential reasons why Bing isn't indexing your pages and steps to resolve it.
Possible Reasons:
Bing's Crawl Rate Is Slow:
Bing crawls and indexes sites at a slower pace compared to Google, especially for newer websites or sites with low authority.
XML Sitemap Issues:
If your XML sitemap isn’t submitted correctly or has errors, Bing might not know how to crawl your site properly.
Robots.txt Restrictions:
A misconfigured robots.txt file might be blocking Bingbot from crawling certain pages.
Lack of Quality Backlinks:
Bing often relies more heavily on backlinks to determine which sites to index. If your site has few or no backlinks, it might delay indexing.
Technical SEO Issues:
Site issues like slow load speeds, broken links, or duplicate content can prevent Bing from indexing your pages.
How to Fix the Issue:
Check Your Sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools:
Make sure your sitemap is submitted correctly:
Go to Bing Webmaster Tools → Sitemaps.
Submit your sitemap (usually located at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml).
Inspect Your Robots.txt:
Check if Bingbot is allowed to crawl your site:
Go to yourdomain.com/robots.txt and ensure it doesn't block Bingbot.
Your robots.txt should contain something like this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Request Indexing Manually:
In Bing Webmaster Tools, use the URL Submission Tool:
Go to URL Inspection → enter the URL and click Request Indexing.
Note: Bing may limit the number of requests per day.
Check for Crawl Errors:
In Bing Webmaster Tools, check the Crawl Information section for any errors preventing indexing.
Build Quality Backlinks:
Focus on obtaining backlinks from reputable sites to improve your site's authority, which can help Bing prioritize your site.
Improve Content Quality:
Ensure your content is unique, valuable, and free from spammy practices.
Ensure HTTPS and Site Speed:
Bing prefers secure, fast-loading sites. Use tools like GTmetrix to check your site's performance.
Submit an Indexing Issue to Bing Support:
If nothing works, reach out to Bing's support via Bing Webmaster Tools to report the issue.
Summary of Actions:
Submit or re-submit your XML Sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools.
Check your robots.txt file to ensure Bingbot isn't blocked.
Use URL Submission Tool in Bing Webmaster Tools.
Build backlinks and improve your site's authority.
Monitor for any crawl errors or issues.
Bing can take time, so be patient and keep optimizing! 😊
Hi Kyle
The most common cause of this is a problem with the robots.txt for your site.
You haven't said what your website is called so I can't look.
Have you read the Bing Webmaster Guidelines as suggested in the message?
Just read and keep asking questions. I'm sure this will be fixable.
;-)
Richard
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Pages being "discovered but not crawled" on bing - any ideas what the issue could be?
Has anyone else had this issue? I have a website that's about 5 months old. It's ranking pretty decently on Google, but on Bing there is NOTHING that's ranking, reason being t
Hey Kyle,
Took your question to Bing, simply because that's what I do whenever I experience an issue with a particular platform/search engine.
It looks though Microsoft provides users with a resolve, see screen print below...
Hope you find this helpful.
Thank you for this. The only thing I can think of is that it might be some sort of technical issue that's preventing Bing from crawling the site. But Google crawls it no problem and I've already paid a guy on Fiverr to look into it and he came back with nothing. Will have to look for someone with more expertise in this area.
This is a common issue faced by website owners, especially with newer sites, where Bing's indexing lags behind Google's. Let's break down the potential reasons why Bing isn't indexing your pages and steps to resolve it.
Possible Reasons:
Bing's Crawl Rate Is Slow:
Bing crawls and indexes sites at a slower pace compared to Google, especially for newer websites or sites with low authority.
XML Sitemap Issues:
If your XML sitemap isn’t submitted correctly or has errors, Bing might not know how to crawl your site properly.
Robots.txt Restrictions:
A misconfigured robots.txt file might be blocking Bingbot from crawling certain pages.
Lack of Quality Backlinks:
Bing often relies more heavily on backlinks to determine which sites to index. If your site has few or no backlinks, it might delay indexing.
Technical SEO Issues:
Site issues like slow load speeds, broken links, or duplicate content can prevent Bing from indexing your pages.
How to Fix the Issue:
Check Your Sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools:
Make sure your sitemap is submitted correctly:
Go to Bing Webmaster Tools → Sitemaps.
Submit your sitemap (usually located at yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml).
Inspect Your Robots.txt:
Check if Bingbot is allowed to crawl your site:
Go to yourdomain.com/robots.txt and ensure it doesn't block Bingbot.
Your robots.txt should contain something like this:
User-agent: *
Disallow:
Request Indexing Manually:
In Bing Webmaster Tools, use the URL Submission Tool:
Go to URL Inspection → enter the URL and click Request Indexing.
Note: Bing may limit the number of requests per day.
Check for Crawl Errors:
In Bing Webmaster Tools, check the Crawl Information section for any errors preventing indexing.
Build Quality Backlinks:
Focus on obtaining backlinks from reputable sites to improve your site's authority, which can help Bing prioritize your site.
Improve Content Quality:
Ensure your content is unique, valuable, and free from spammy practices.
Ensure HTTPS and Site Speed:
Bing prefers secure, fast-loading sites. Use tools like GTmetrix to check your site's performance.
Submit an Indexing Issue to Bing Support:
If nothing works, reach out to Bing's support via Bing Webmaster Tools to report the issue.
Summary of Actions:
Submit or re-submit your XML Sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools.
Check your robots.txt file to ensure Bingbot isn't blocked.
Use URL Submission Tool in Bing Webmaster Tools.
Build backlinks and improve your site's authority.
Monitor for any crawl errors or issues.
Bing can take time, so be patient and keep optimizing! 😊
Hi Kyle
The most common cause of this is a problem with the robots.txt for your site.
You haven't said what your website is called so I can't look.
Have you read the Bing Webmaster Guidelines as suggested in the message?
Just read and keep asking questions. I'm sure this will be fixable.
;-)
Richard
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Back in March my website got hit hard with the Google update. I was hoping it would have recovered by now, but it hasn't and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for this?
Don't fret. Keep publishing those helpful articles, and before you know it that trickle of visitors to your website will become a stream
Vitality's short Improving Google Rankings After Taking an HCU Hit (Update) There's a new HCU coming up: Google Update Coming Again Soon-in Weeks-Oh No-You Scared Yet? ???? Abie
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Any advice on google update hit?
Back in March my website got hit hard with the Google update. I was hoping it would have recovered by now, but it hasn't and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice for this?
Don't fret. Keep publishing those helpful articles, and before you know it that trickle of visitors to your website will become a stream
Vitality's short Improving Google Rankings After Taking an HCU Hit (Update) There's a new HCU coming up: Google Update Coming Again Soon-in Weeks-Oh No-You Scared Yet? ???? Abie
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Does anyone have any idea how to create other Jaaxy users? I have Jaaxy Enterprise so I'm pretty sure I can do this, but don't know how.
Any help is appreciated!!
One Jaxxy account per user :)
You can search multiple words simultaneously and without clicking the QSR
How to create other jaaxy users?
Does anyone have any idea how to create other Jaaxy users? I have Jaaxy Enterprise so I'm pretty sure I can do this, but don't know how.
Any help is appreciated!!
One Jaxxy account per user :)
You can search multiple words simultaneously and without clicking the QSR
Hi. I'm working with an accountant for tax purposes and need to know about a contract. What they've told me is that:
"Proper accounting practices necessitate the amortiz
That would be between you and the affiliate programs you partner with, their terms and conditions.
Affiliate contract for tax purposes?
Hi. I'm working with an accountant for tax purposes and need to know about a contract. What they've told me is that:
"Proper accounting practices necessitate the amortiz
That would be between you and the affiliate programs you partner with, their terms and conditions.
So I’m having this problem on a Spanish website where all of my letters with accent marks (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ) appear incorrectly.
i take it you have set your wordpress language to spanish
under settings you have et option of setting the language to espanol or other spanishes across the globe
phil
but it will be language font support...
how did you write the articles .. did you import them or write them within wordpress.
Hi Phil,
Some of the articles were written directly in Wordpress and some others were pasted inside from Google docs.
As for Wordpress itself, this is set in Spanish, but I have no problem with this. The only problem is with the posts on my site. And it's also worth mentioning that the titles of some posts display incorrectly as well... all of which were written directly inside Wordpress.
Do you have any thoughts as to what I should do to try to solve this problem?
do they display ok within your wordpress...if so could it be your browser not supporting the font....
it looks like it is translating the extended characters as their ascii...
if you look at the code for what you have written above then it is completely different...so looking at your wordpress html will show whether it is correct...
what is displayed when using ctrl+u
at “a ntilde os” is incorrectly displayed as “aAtilde;plusminus;os”
have you got a url that does this as it may be a declaration made within your head section that is not saying what to translate the html sent correctly....
what you are looking for is
<meta; charset="utf-8">
in the head section....this tells the browsers the html is sent to how to decode it...
Hi Phil,
Does this line of code have anything to do with this?
<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>">
I found this in my website header, but nothing exactly as you pasted in the previous comment.
looks like it is inheriting the charset from the bloginfo variable...
reading more about it all of the tables in your database need to have the correct coding for the language support....
unfortunately that is above what i am able to d oat the moment...but read about it in the thread from wmpl
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/accents-are-not-working-in-spanish-automatically-converted-to-strange-chars/
i hope you get it sorted...
Thank you for the advice and help Phil. I really appreciate it. I will look at the link you provided.
no worries... just frustrated i couldn't help you further....
i hope you manage to get to the bottom of it...
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Why are accented letters (spanish) appearing incorrectly?
So I’m having this problem on a Spanish website where all of my letters with accent marks (á, é, í, ó, ú, ñ) appear incorrectly.
i take it you have set your wordpress language to spanish
under settings you have et option of setting the language to espanol or other spanishes across the globe
phil
but it will be language font support...
how did you write the articles .. did you import them or write them within wordpress.
Hi Phil,
Some of the articles were written directly in Wordpress and some others were pasted inside from Google docs.
As for Wordpress itself, this is set in Spanish, but I have no problem with this. The only problem is with the posts on my site. And it's also worth mentioning that the titles of some posts display incorrectly as well... all of which were written directly inside Wordpress.
Do you have any thoughts as to what I should do to try to solve this problem?
do they display ok within your wordpress...if so could it be your browser not supporting the font....
it looks like it is translating the extended characters as their ascii...
if you look at the code for what you have written above then it is completely different...so looking at your wordpress html will show whether it is correct...
what is displayed when using ctrl+u
at “a ntilde os” is incorrectly displayed as “aAtilde;plusminus;os”
have you got a url that does this as it may be a declaration made within your head section that is not saying what to translate the html sent correctly....
what you are looking for is
<meta; charset="utf-8">
in the head section....this tells the browsers the html is sent to how to decode it...
Hi Phil,
Does this line of code have anything to do with this?
<meta charset="<?php bloginfo( 'charset' ); ?>">
I found this in my website header, but nothing exactly as you pasted in the previous comment.
looks like it is inheriting the charset from the bloginfo variable...
reading more about it all of the tables in your database need to have the correct coding for the language support....
unfortunately that is above what i am able to d oat the moment...but read about it in the thread from wmpl
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/accents-are-not-working-in-spanish-automatically-converted-to-strange-chars/
i hope you get it sorted...
Thank you for the advice and help Phil. I really appreciate it. I will look at the link you provided.
no worries... just frustrated i couldn't help you further....
i hope you manage to get to the bottom of it...
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Hey Kyle,
Took your question to Bing, simply because that's what I do whenever I experience an issue with a particular platform/search engine.
It looks though Microsoft provides users with a resolve, see screen print below...
Hope you find this helpful.
Thank you for this. The only thing I can think of is that it might be some sort of technical issue that's preventing Bing from crawling the site. But Google crawls it no problem and I've already paid a guy on Fiverr to look into it and he came back with nothing. Will have to look for someone with more expertise in this area.
So, what Microsoft suggested doesn't work either, Kyle?