Questions tagged [bing]
Microsoft's internet search engine. Located at bing.com
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Content Not Appearing in Bing & Yandex Search Results [duplicate]
I'm reaching out to the community for some advice on website optimization. I recently launched some new content on my website and it's been indexed by Google and other search engines. However, I'm not ...
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The "Site Name" doesn't show up on SERPs, even through schema/h1/title has been set
The Site Name field doesn't show the correct/desired site name on Google and Bing (and may be on the other SEs as well).
I double-checked (no, probably more) the structured data has been set correctly,...
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Bing is not indexing my site [duplicate]
This is ridiculous, It's been since 2021 and the problem persists, the last time i contacted them in 2021 they responded with this pre written template twice:
"We are not able to provide ...
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To prevent a page from being indexed by search engines, should I add noindex and nofollow meta tags in addition to leaving it off our site map?
There are some pages on our websites that we do not want indexed by Google or other search engines, so we leave them off of the XML sitemap we provide to search engines.
To be safe, is it also ...
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Is it possible to make your website to be searchable with specific keywords?
I have rather large problem searching for devexpress help topics. I use text like devexpress +wpf +gridcontrol something and Google and Bing give me loads of irrelevant articles for example for ...
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Bing shows wrong favicon in SERP
For some reason Bing SERPs show and old favicon of one of my clients websites. All other search engines that I tested (Google, DuckDuckGo, Yandex) show the correct icon. The website didn't use this ...
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My website's favicon is not displayed in Bing search results [duplicate]
My website has a problem with displaying the favicon in the output.
Even though I've practically done all the items from the recommendations https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/forum/all/what-...
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How soon does Bing start to obey a new robots.txt after accessing it?
I've recently noticed that Bing is crawling THOUSANDS of essentially duplicated pages on my site, and have updated my robots.txt as such:
User-agent: *
Crawl-delay: 1
Allow: /
Disallow: /report-js-...
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Is it possible to exclude just OpenAI - ChatGPT from scraping my website?
I would like to not have OpenAI, ChatGPT or the potentially associated Bingbot scrape my website. The latter seems to have a defined bot name. What about the first two? They seem to be using Common ...
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Large increase in 'Discovered - currently not indexed' pages in Google Webmasters
For last few months, we noticed a large increase in 'Discovered - currently not indexed' pages in Webmaster tools.
By last month, we had almost half of our site pages were classified as discovered but ...
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What I have tried & about to try (Deleting Bing Webmaster Account) to fix Bing Delisted Website. Advice Appreciated
If I delete my bing webmaster account, will it reset/delete ALL the data Bing has listed against my domain?
I ask this question because our site has been deindexed by bing - Like thousands of other ...
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Why does Bing Webmaster Tools tell me that my h1 tag is missing?
Here is a snippet of code from my index.htm page. The h1 tag is there, so why isn't Bing recognizing it?
<body class="designview landing-page sidebar-collapse">
<script>
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Bing delisted site after Cloudflare Crawler Hints sent junk URLs to Bing via IndexNow
I found my site delisted by Bing after many years of being the top result for my search terms. This site is part of a WordPress network and the 100 or so other sites are unaffected.
The only point of ...
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Bing refuses to index my site at all
I have been trying for months now to get Bing to index my personal website, to no avail. I'm not talking about ranking, as I expect it to rank quite low. It is invisible. I don't care about Bing in ...
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Bing Search Performance Keyword and Page Exports don't add up, should they?
If I examine a time period in the search performance tools for a period, the overview numbers are always an about order of magnitude greater than what I see when I download the keyword and pagee ...
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Bingbot issues and crawling my website root domain [duplicate]
I seem to have this issue with a few different website's but bing is unable to crawl (or fetch the pages).
I have done a cURL via windows and it connected properly however every URL live inspection ...
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Bing randomly adds MSCLKID parameter to links in SERPs
When searching Bing recently, I noticed, that links to my websites get automatically appended MSCLKID parameter whichs turned out to be some id for analytics or ads-tracking. This resulted in 400 (Bad ...
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Does Bing penalised sites for too many H1 Tags?
My site was penalised for many weeks in bing, yahoo ect ect
I spent sleepless nights trying to work out why it was not apparently complying
In the end. It turned out they were detecting 6 H1 tags on ...
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What's wrong with Bing bot Index?
I'm facing serious issues with Bing since last year. To start, most organic traffic of my website came from Bing when compared to others search engines. I wouldn't make a fuss if the situation was ...
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Bing Site Scan; Redirecting to login page
My website apkeh.com is not getting indexed, it says violation of community guidelines. I don't know what guidelines, exactly I am violating. I tried a site scan and found that most of the links are ...
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NextJS site hosted on Heroku not indexed by Bing after 2 months
my website does not get indexed for some reason. I think its because of javascript. I have been asking this question now for a long time, every one says there is no content or there is no back links....
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Bing removed page from index after switching from WordPress to Next,js
My site had been ranking well (position ~4 page 1) on Bing, but after switching from WordPress to Next.js, Bing Webmaster Tools says it can't be indexed.
Any idea what could be wrong? The webpage is ...
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Do affiliate work with Parallel Tracking in Google ads or Bing ads [closed]
For affiliate offer to work, a user need to go through the affiliate link and it a mandatory. if user did not went through the affiliate link then the commission will not get generated for affiliaters....
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How to inspect and fix Bing's "Crawl errors"
I signed up for Bing's Webmaster Tools and submitted my sitemap. The "search performance" blade shows this report with 12 crawl errors:
Nowhere on the site could I find information about ...
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Bing Caching - 125 KB Limit
In Bing's Webmaster Tools, they have a warning if your html is over 125KB.
It states:
Evaluated size of HTML is estimated to be over 125 KB and risks not being fully cached.
Recommended action
Ensure ...
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Website deindexed by Bing.com but they won't tell me why
I have a website that is about 9 months old that hosts and distributes a desktop utility/productivity tool. Never had issues with Google, but I have a continuous streak of very frustrating experience ...
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Site de-indexed by Bing, then block removed by the Bing team but rankings not returning
Last month Bing de-indexed my site (www.generatormix.com) – after a review by the Bing team the block was removed (they didn't specify why it got de-indexed in the first place but it must have been a &...
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410 Status : Grace Period, Delay and User Experience Impact on SEO
I am raising this question as a follow up to my previous (already answered) question: SEO Safe way to permanently delete thousands of outdated pages
Now we are planning to remove about 25% of pages. ...
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Site gets spammed through internal search
I used to use only search console and Google analytics for website data. But recently I decided to try out Bing webmaster tools when I heard about Microsoft Clarity.
In the Site explorer, I noticed ...
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Why are Bing and SEMRushBot ignoring crawl-delay in my robots.txt file?
We host a large number of sites that have a large number of catalog pages. We would like to slow down several bots because the traffic is quite excessive from those bots. Specifically, we get quite a ...
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Bing attempting to index URLs that have never existed
I have several sites with dynamic links to products, where the product attributes are encoded into the URL. e.g.
https://example.com/products/{"product_code":"Widget","size":"gargantuan"}
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Remove large amounts of pages from Bing Index Explorer
I have a website that I took over in my business. We redid the whole website (which was previously a mix of ASP and HTML) and is now a WordPress site running on nginx. I submitted the sitemap to ...
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Blocked URL in Bing still showing up in search results
I am trying to block a URL from showing up in search results. I am the webmaster for the site, and the content has been deleted.
I used the "block URL" link 2 days ago and the URL is still showing ...
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Can I see a history of site index from Bing?
I'm at a small internet company that has several apps. Our customers (all businesses) each have their own app-name/customer-name url. Currently, if you request a page preview from Bing's link preview ...
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"Malware detected on my website", a message from Bing webmaster tools for a URL of a deleted page of my blogger website. What shall I do?
Today I received a message in the dashboard of Bing webmaster tools notifying me "Malware detected on my website" for the URL of a page which I deleted a month ago. Though I didn't notify it to the ...
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On Bing Webmaster Tools, how do I move a site from http to https without losing webmaster data?
I'm being asked to move the site to https from http under Bing Webmaster Tools. The site has been https for a long time with 301 redirects already in place.
In Google, we have both URLs but in Bing ...
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Goals in Bing Ads are not exactly sourced from running Bing Ads? Could it be from running Google Ads?
I have been running Google ads for a few months now where I track the conversion goals using tags.
Now, I'm experimenting with Bing Ads and I have enabled tagging + conversion goals.
I have got a ...
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Can I put google ads on site that gets 90% organic traffic from bing
I have a site that gets 20 to 30 visitors (sometimes 50+) daily from organic search. Organic search traffics mostly comes from Bing search engine, not Google.
I have read that before, Google Adsense ...
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Sitemap in Bing pending for two weeks
I built a new website a month ago. Two weeks ago I had submitted the sitemap in Bing search console.
At this point, it is still in pending status. What should I do to get Bing moving on it?
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How do I tell Googlebot and Bingbot that there will be more links below the current viewport
So I have a blog post which is rendered on the server, so this should not be a problem. Now below the post there is a standard "Recommended Section" with related posts, but I fetch these posts only if ...
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Remove site from search engines for specific keyword
I know normally people want the opposite but I would like to know if someone here knows how to remove a site from search results for a specific keyword.
Lately I'm getting a lot of visits from people ...
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User agent of BingWeb - bot or mobile agent?
When I scan my logs for user agents containing Bing (capitalized), I find two types of user agents: those containing BingPreview and those containing BingWeb.
Bing lists BingPreview as one of their ...
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Bing returns garbed text for PDFs
Bing Search results that include this PDF...
http://www.uawtrust.org/AdminCenter/Library.Files/Media/501/HealthWellness/Docs/Prevention/depression.pdf
Look like this (wrong title - "Deei" instead of ...
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issues with title and description of my website in Bing results [closed]
I have problems with title and description tags
The site link appears incorrectly in Bing only!
I searched a lot without finding a solution
Please help
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Negative Canonical Attacks, do they work? how to recover? how to prevent?
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Today I received an email from the Google Search Console reporting a huge increase of 404 pages on my site. Upon investigating I found hundreds of sites linking to my pages that simply ...
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Bing stopped indexing the site after disallowing all crawlers except Googlebot, Yahoo-slurp, and Msnbot
Bing removed my top pages from results, 3 days ago they were showing at first page. Maybe i updated robots.txt file few weeks ago. Can someone check below template if there is something wrong that is ...
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Inconsistent site: search results on bing and yahoo
I am trying to understand the numbers I am seeing using the search site:example.com on yahoo & bing.
Firstly on yahoo if I use site:https://www.example.com/ using https - Yahoo declares 121 ...
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How I know my site is indexed on AOL or not
How do I know is my site indexed on AOL or not?
How do I index it?
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Bing not indexing URLs From Sitemap [duplicate]
I have a site that Google has indexed 19k pages, in a fairly short amount of time. Bing on the other hand is lagging pretty far behind...51 pages after approximately 3 months of waiting. Many of the ...
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How long after fixing a crawl error in Bing Webmaster Tools before Bing recrawls and stops showing the error?
When will Bing recrawl my online shopping site?
Yesterday I solved my site errors that were displayed in in Bing Webmaster Tools. I asked it to fetch those URLs. Bing webmaster tools still shows ...
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