Microsoft's internet search engine. Located at bing.com
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Bingbot request for trafficbasedsspsitemap.xml which does not exist
The logs for a website I manage show a request for a non-existent file by Bingbot. The details of the request are
Path: /trafficbasedsspsitemap.xml
Useragent: "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; ...
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Is Yahoo Search the same as Bing Search now?
We had some serious issues with Yahoo's (incredibly) badly written spider in the past, and as a result we blocked them. Marco Arment of Tumblr also shared his frustrations with us on 8/31/2009, which ...
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Is it really worth submitting to DMOZ anymore?
This question stems from here. This guy sounds like he's getting a bit annoyed with DMOZ, but I was wondering if it's even worth submitting there nowadays. Does anyone still use it as a search engine? ...
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How should I handle search engines auto-correcting the spelling of a site's name?
A client's site and company is called 'Tranin Communications' (Tranin is her last name).
It ranks well in searches for her name but rather poorly in searches for the name of her site/company.
I ...
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Does Bing support anything like Google's First Click Free program?
Google has a program for webmasters called First Click Free.
To implement First Click Free, you need to allow all users who find a document on your site via Google search to see the full text of ...
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Where can I find a list of related search terms?
Does Google, Bing, or any of the other major search engines make a list or index of related search terms available?
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How can I get an “Official site” banner/area on Bing?
If I search for a product name on Bing, for example "paint.net", the first result is something that looks like an advertising area, but it's called "Official Site".
How is it possible to get something ...
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Should we follow the schema.org paths?
schema.org seems to enable us to provide metadata for some search engines including Google and Bing so that our pages will display nicely on the web.
My question is should we follow the schema.org ...
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How long does Bingbot typically take to process a sitemap submission?
I submitted a domain's sitemap.xml to Bingbot (in Webmaster Tools).
It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing Webmaster Tools takes to ...
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Am I covering the major search engine spiders in my anti-crawl protection white list?
I've a system which blacklists users who request too many pages too fast if they are not in my white list. We are just worried about the main search engines and to be honest Google is the only one my ...
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Bing doesn't index my website correcty
I have a website with robots and sitemap which is working on Google.
I created a bing webmasters and sent the sitemap some weeks ago, but whenever I search site:www.mysite.com I get only the root ...
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Why deny access to website for msnbot/bingbot?
I've seen quite a lot of tutorials that recommend you to ban user agents containing the strings libwww-perl and msnbot. I understand why one would ban libwww-perl, it's mainly if not only used for ...
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Do wordpress websites get indexed quicker by SE than a regular website?
I registered a couple of domains with the names of categories of products we sell.
I then installed wordpress in one of those domains and played around with it for a bit, and left it alone for about a ...
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How can I prevent Googlebot from indexing web service URL's?
I have a problem with googlebot and bingbot accessing our web service. We have a search application created in aspx that is integrated into a drupal website. Users perform searches based on postal ...
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What to do About Wrong Information That Has Propagated Throughout the Internet
Many years ago, someone made an entry into Yahoo! Maps for our small research library that contained the phone number of our librarian.
Hundreds of sites accepted this information as authoritative ...
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Are there any specific tips and tricks for optimizing a website for Bing?
Most available resources (even Bing community) promote the general principles for optimize a site in Google. My site is quite well optimized for a certain keyword combination in Google, yet in Bing it ...
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Schema.org MedicalClinic
I'm using http://schema.org/MedicalClinic on main page of my client's site. I've filled in as many as I can including address,name, url, image url, geolocation, descripition, opening hours, specialty ...
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Why is BingBot causing so many 404 errors by removing letters from url's?
Since the ForceRecrawl problem went away Bing has come back with some new trends.
I'm seeing many URLs missing the last letter, or missing a few letters, and some other wired guess URLs. It also ...
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Can I force Bing to reindex our site?
Our website is ranking quite well (first page) on Google for quite a lot of keywords.
However, our website is not on the first 10 pages of Bing for most of these keywords.
I notice our Google ...
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Do Yahoo! and Bing also support pretty AJAX URLs like Google's bot does?
I wonder if Ajax crawling suggested by Google is also applicable to Yahoo and Bing. It seems that only Google can crawl my Ajax page after I implemented that.
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Bing flagging pages as Malware
Bing has flagged some pages on a site I manage as malware, these have been looked at and looks like there was some malware at some point but it's now since been removed.
It's also pointing to some ...
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How can I tell which pages of a site are indexed by Google or Bing?
Is there a tool that can list the specific pages of a site which are indexed by the search engines?
I know the webmaster tools have this stuff, but it just tells how many pages out of the sitemap, ...
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GEO Tool - commercial use
what i want to do:
offer my clients the possibility to display their store as a small graphic (like google maps). just a small png with the location of the store.
only the specific client is able to ...
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Moving URL - telling Bing Webmaster Tools
We're moving a site, we've set up 301's from the old pages to the new ones and told Google about the move, but I could find any were to tell Bing, is it a feature in there Webmaster Tools ?
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Why does BingBot add “ForceRecrawl: 0” to URLs when crawling my sites?
I'm seeing this in the iis-logs of two websites that I maintain:
GET /an/existing/page/on/my/site+ForceRecrawl:+0 - 80 - 207.46.195.105 HTTP/1.1 ...
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Google Instant Preview (Image) - What screen dimension? e.g 1024x768?
I'm wondering what screen dimensions Google Instant Preview takes a snapshot of your website at e.g 1024px x 768px...?
http://sites.google.com/site/webmasterhelpforum/en/faq-instant-previews
FYI: ...
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Do all search engines obey nofollow rel attribute on hyperlinks
I have been informed that search engine support is inconsistent for the rel attribute with the 'nofollow' value.
Is this the case.
From my research Google, Yahoo and Bing seem to obey this attribute ...
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Prevent crawling of mobile site
I have an issue with bots crawling the mobile site and returning hits on the mobile site for desktop users.
The mobile content is in /mobile/
The regular site will redirect mobile users to the ...
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Possible automated Bing Ads fraud?
I run a website that generates life insurance leads. The site is very simple a) there is a form for capturing the user's details, life insurance requirements etc b) A quote comparison feature
We ...
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Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?
I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting /sitemap.xml due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my ...
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Do search engines penalise 'Home' links and/or buttons?
I had a client recently express his feelings about not having a 'home' link or a 'home' button on a website. I told him I would consult someone who knows, but I've never personally heard anything ...
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Difference between two kinds of Bing URL Referers
Most of the referral URLS that I get from Bing have the following syntax:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=keywords+keywords&[some other variables]
However I just noticed that maybe 10-20% of them ...
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MSNBot/BingBot not reporting it is a bot?
I have apache logs from my server, and I filter out visits from bots/crawlers/scrapers using a python script that checks for user agent strings containing text like 'bot', 'googlebot', etc.
Lately, ...
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How does bing-bot( is that the right spider-name? ) and googlebot interpret 301 redirect?
I've been looking for documentation on how the Microsoft and Google bots interpret 301 redirects.
It seems that google-bot stores documents on a url based index system. But I haven't been able to ...
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Site is not indexed on Bing [duplicate]
My site is having a good ranking on google, but the site is not even indexed in yahoo and bing.
I have submitted my site to both yahoo and bing search engines 3 months ago. I also submitted the ...
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Google Traffic Decline
Below is a chart which shows traffic from Google for a new website. What could be the reason for those dynamics: fast growth and slow decline?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/xmv3kd3q0l2iyaa/traffic.png
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Site not indexed in Google, but indexed in Bing and Yahoo [duplicate]
When I search for mytgp.ph on Google, I don't get any relevant results. But when I search using Yahoo or Bing, the site is the 1st result on the first page. Any ideas?
Here's my site:mytgp.ph query ...
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How do I add a wordpress.com blog to Bing?
I am running a Wordpress blog. It shows up for Google search on my name, but it’s not indexed at all by Bing. Can I add it somehow to Bing? I added it to Bing Webmaster tools, but it doeas not see a ...
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Duplicate content site skipped in Yahoo and Bing
I want to buy a 1 year old site which my friend had initially created with duplicate content. In the later months he removed all such material and placed original stuff. Now it is in top charts in ...
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How long does it take Google, Yahoo or Bing to reindex my website?
I made some changes recently to my website that were substantial.
My page rank for my business's name is now #1.
However, Google shows wrong information in the search results, as do Bing and Yahoo.
...
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Why does the Bing bot request this URL?
While checking server logs, I have seen that often the Bing bot requests this URL.
URL: /da-net/products/cadpac/cadpac_jis.shtml
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; ...
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Different Blocked URLS Stats in Google Webmaster
Just want to know i got different blocked urls stats at webmaster.
I blocked entire site for revamp and latest builds implementation. Here are different stats
Under Health tab> Blocked URls>2,580
...
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Should I be concerned for SEO when hiding images?
I'm using fancybox 2 with the following code (demo here):
<a class="fancybox"
href="http://a.com/bmw-328-manual-2008-black-18-inch-rims.jpg"
title"bmw 328 manual 2008 black 18 inch rims">
...
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How to target just one search engine and optimise for that
I've been dabbling with SEO a lot in the last 6 months, and one thing that has surprised me is the disparity between Google and Bing in the way they deliver results. A website ranked for a specific ...
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MS Bing web crawler out of control causing our site to go down
Here is a weird one that I am not sure what to do. Today our companies e-commerce site went down. I tailed the production log and saw that we were receiving a ton of request from this range of IP's ...
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List Posts and SEO
I was checking list posts on sites like freelance folder and found that they link to external and internal articles weekly. You can check freelanceswitch site for example of their weekly linkswitch ...
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Is this a link scheme? If so, what to do? what problems can i face?
I was asked to remodel a website, and decided to check its rank on alexa. Surprisingly, there are many, many different websites linking to it, none relevant.
One particular thing about it is that ...
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How many days would update if I modify page meta:title and meta:description?
If I adjust the meta:title and meta:description in my page for SEO, how many days would google, yahoo, bing search engine update?
BTW: if my sitemap set this page's changefreq is daily? Thanks.
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Site Indexed in Yahoo and Bing but not Google [duplicate]
I have a site www.holiday-tuscany.com that has been online for less than a month.
If you put the keyword Holiday Tuscany in Google the site doesn't appear in any of Google rankings. If I do the same ...
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Is it possible to request Google and Bing/Yahoo to drop the cache of links they have indexed?
I radically changed the design of my site to not include embedded session keys which were part of the url itself i.e. /sessionkey/blahblah/blah to just /blahblah/blah.
Now that I have relaunched my ...
