I have been trying to make love to bing for a long time now. But, nope.... it just doesn't like to go out with me. I talked about it in the bing forum and have no idea why never got a response. But, from what I have read about why some people have been failing to get bing index them is because of their robots.txt file and the disallow tag. Explainstuff.com is with open doors, allowing every freaking moron bot to my site...but for some reason bing just doesn't want to get into my site. This is my robots.txt right here: User-agent: * Disallow: Sitemap: http://www.explainstuff.com/sitemap.xml.gz Code (markup): Can someone let me know what you might have done for a similar issue or if you know what else might be the issue with this? Google says it indexed 555 pages. (probably more because it might have included the translation pages from the global translator plugin) Yahoo says it indexed 283 pages. (probably not indexed translation pages) Why in the world is bing only seeing 9 pages from my site?
windows live always used to index less than everyone else..bing is just windows live with a little pimpin'.
Have you add your site to bing center? bing.com/webmaster. try it and hope bing will index it. Like the other said bing is selective SE.
Thanks di4n, i'll use that link now to try and submit my sites. Hopefully it will start to index more of the pages on my site.
CrazyDictator is right. Still the same search engine, and still indexing at a slower pace. This site might be of interest to you : http://rankingloophole.com/ When Bing was still MSN Live, you learned how to exploit a MS stupidity/oversight/neglect. The name of Live might have changed, but it's still the same search engine core. The Ranking Poophole still works. And it might take months for your site to show up on the first page. Even when applying the method. There are cases of people who gave up one month (or less) too quick. They applied the method, waited 4, 5 months, abandoned the site, and then took the site(s) down. Only for their sites to appear on the top of the second page or somewhere on the first page in MSN Live (now Bing). The 2 guys (Dave Kelly and Chris Rempel) who run the training, have actual video proof in the member's area. They use it to motivate people to stick it out, because the steep investment in their method, is payed back in spades when it's prime time. And it sticks when you keep at it. They, and you will also when you buy the training, are able to spot the websites using their methods in the search results. I'm not going to tell you how, but it's easy. But it also depends on what type of site you have and what the keywords are. Because other people applying the method were on the first page in Live in a matter of weeks. Anyhow, long story short. Bing indexes at slower pace than Google. Robert
Thats weird. Bing has over 600 indexed pages of my site when I use site:, but Google only has 450. Perhaps try to add a sitemap to Bing?
I've noticed that Bing doesn't index very many of my pages either, Google has indexed about 150, and Bing only 5 or 6.
Guys, I have added explainstuff to the webmasters, added the sitemap...I've done all those things...but nope Mr Chandler BING.... still doesn't like it! I had actually posted about this in one of the bing forums and personally forwarded it to one of their forum administrator...but well lets just say BING still hates explainstuff
Bing is new, and M$ are still probably working out kinks, don't worry about it, only time will tell, tbh.
@jinglepoint This search proofs that you are indexed in Bing. You have 9 results : http://www.bing.com/search?q=site:explainstuff.com&form=QBRE&filt=all Your site has Bling Bling. Robert
its really great if there's a tutorial about how to make bing see our site.. should take advantage of this new search engine earlier..
If your site is well indexed in google, there are high chances that your site would automatically get indexed in Bing as well. I do not think an existing site needs to do anything different and special for bing to notice its existence! Regards, RightMan