Bing no longer reporting positions?

Discussion in 'Keyword Tracker' started by debunked, Aug 7, 2012.

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  1. #1
    The last few days our positions with Bing went N/A from 1 to -9998, etc....

    Is anyone else seeing this?

    This is for every site and KW were are tracking with the tool.
     
    debunked, Aug 7, 2012 IP
  2. BlackjackInfo

    BlackjackInfo Well-Known Member

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    #2
    The Bing API is now a paid product, so the free retrievals no longer work.

    I tried to post about this months ago, but someone here busted my post and gave me penalty points for posting "off topic". Go figure.
     
    BlackjackInfo, Aug 7, 2012 IP
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  3. debunked

    debunked Prominent Member

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    #3
    It was working fine for me until a couple of days ago. (Maybe it started in August.)
     
    debunked, Aug 8, 2012 IP
  4. BlackjackInfo

    BlackjackInfo Well-Known Member

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    Yes, it was announced months ago, but took affect August 1st.
     
    BlackjackInfo, Aug 9, 2012 IP
  5. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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  6. debunked

    debunked Prominent Member

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    Thank you Shawn. I just made the change and it looks like it is working.
     
    debunked, Aug 9, 2012 IP
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    Maschit Peon

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    it seem that Bing is swift to paid version
     
    Maschit, Aug 10, 2012 IP
  8. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #8
    Wrong. lol
     
    digitalpoint, Aug 10, 2012 IP
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    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #9
    Do you have any clue what the Keyword Tracker is by chance? I feel like you don't. lol
     
    digitalpoint, Aug 10, 2012 IP
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    I hope my voting for you helps ranking you high.
    yes I think BlackJackInfo is right. Bing API is paid now and is more swift. Sorry to disagree with you on this one digital point.
     
    potshr, Aug 22, 2012 IP
  11. BlackjackInfo

    BlackjackInfo Well-Known Member

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    We're both right.
    Bing DID switch to paid access to the API, effective August 1st. That's why the old version of the tracking script stopped working on August 1st.
    Shawn updated the tracking script though, to go back to scraping results from the XML version of the search pages.
    If you update the tracking script as he advises, your Bing results will start working again.
     
    BlackjackInfo, Aug 22, 2012 IP
  12. digitalpoint

    digitalpoint Overlord of no one Staff

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    #12
    The keyword tracker script has *always* used an RSS feed for Bing results. The fact that Bing went paid with something we never used was not the issue. :)
     
    digitalpoint, Aug 22, 2012 IP
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    Since BING Api now requires payment weird things are happening
     
    hamutdp, Aug 22, 2012 IP