So Excited, So Confused!
Published on August 3, 2022
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I was SO EXCITED to find that one of my posts from my little, third website is a featured snippet on Bing! I have had dozens of featured snippets on Google and Bing with my first two websites in the pet and health niches but I don't think I had one for this site before. It is in the competitive, work-from-home niche.
It was at position three when I took this image but now it is fluctuating each day between positions 1 and 2. I'll take it!! What makes this so amazing is that I had not touched this site for a year and had not added a post in 2 YEARS until last week! There are three posts from this site that have been in the top featured snippet positions this week!
I had a plan when I started this site to just get something up and then let it age. I guess "aging" is definitly a real thing! Even if you can't put a ton of time in to a site now, it doesn't hurt to get it started so when you pick it back up it will have a boost in the rankings.
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While this is so amazing I am also frustrated that the new post I wrote for that site last week is not getting indexed on Bing! Isn't that ironic? I add a new post and get into the top of the search results but that new post isn't even indexed? The posts that reached #1, #2 and #3 were all posts I wrote a couple years ago.
I think I did everything the same for the new post so I don't know why it isn't getting indexed. I have tried turning plugins off and on, adding new plugins for indexing, checking the errors in Bing Webmaster Tools, trying to fix little things but I still don't know what is preventing the new post from getting indexed. I has been indexed by Google! So what is up with Bing this time?
It says I am missing Alt text for my featured image but I have checked and double checked and triple checked and the Alt text is there if I look in the Media Library and also when I look at the fields for the featured image.
This world is so confusing!
I hope you are all doing well!
Jessica
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