Bing is not indexing images from my website

[goupipoopi]

Google is working fine but bing, bing is a mystery to me.
When i go on bing and search site:www.mywebsite.com only one image shows up even tho my website has tons of images.
How can I fix the problem?

 

[StealthNexus]

Bing handles image indexing quite differently from Google, so it’s not unusual to see far fewer images there sometimes just one even if Google shows them all.

Possible reasons why Bing only shows one image:

1. Bingbot can’t access your images – this could be due to your robots.txt blocking them, or meta tags like noimageindex.
2. No image sitemap submitted – Bing often relies heavily on explicit XML image sitemaps to discover and index images.
3. Low domain authority or slow crawl rate – Bing can take longer to fully index new or less authoritative sites.
4. Images loaded via JavaScript – Bing may not “see” them if they don’t appear in the raw HTML.
5. Hotlinking or different host – if your images are hosted on another domain that blocks Bingbot, they won’t be indexed.
   
   

 

[pakuni]

Bing wont grab everything just because Google has it. Make sure your images are in an XML image sitemap, have descriptive filenames, proper alt text and aren’t blocked by robots.txt. You can use Bing Webmaster Tools to submit the sitemap and request indexing.

 

[goupipoopi]

my robots.txt is not blocking bing:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/wc-logs/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_transient_files/
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/woocommerce_uploads/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https://www.theretoucher.com/sitemap_index.xml

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

Host: www.theretoucher.com


How do I find my image sitemap? i'm using rankmath to build it.

 

[goupipoopi]

Bing wont grab everything just because Google has it. Make sure your images are in an XML image sitemap, have descriptive filenames, proper alt text and aren’t blocked by robots.txt. You can use Bing Webmaster Tools to submit the sitemap and request indexing.

I have everything you mentioned and it's not working.

 

[MD SHIMUL HOSSEN]

Bing can be a bit picky when it comes to image indexing. If RankMath generates your sitemap, check if it contains image.xml or if the images are nested inside the post/page sitemap. Also, manually submit the sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools and monitor the crawl statistics. Sometimes even a small change like changing the image URLs from lazy loading to static can make a difference.

 

[AutumnParker]

Make sure your images are in an image sitemap, have descriptive files names and alt text, are not blocked in robots.txt and use ImageObject schema. Then, submit the sitemap and use bing webmaster tools "Fetch as binboot" to speed up indexing.

 

[FinnPulse]

Fixing Bing image indexing often comes down to sitemaps, tags, and crawl accessibility

 

[goupipoopi]

Make sure your images are in an image sitemap, have descriptive files names and alt text, are not blocked in robots.txt and use ImageObject schema. Then, submit the sitemap and use bing webmaster tools "Fetch as binboot" to speed up indexing.

what do you mean by fetch as binboot?

 

[goupipoopi]

Fixing Bing image indexing often comes down to sitemaps, tags, and crawl accessibility

i do not have a separate sitemap for the images. The images tags are included in the initial sitemap of the posts. I am using rankmath for the sitemap. is there a way to create one just for the images?

 

[jolly7]

bing seems to be all over the place, what percent of your traffic are you expecting to get from them? unless your niche uses bing more somehow, the juice might not be worth the squeeze.

 

[goupipoopi]

bing seems to be all over the place, what percent of your traffic are you expecting to get from them? unless your niche uses bing more somehow, the juice might not be worth the squeeze.

i added the sitemaps and let it be. the thing is chatgpt uses bing hence why i want to improve my visibility on bing

 

[AddisonChase]

Bing can be picky with images-try submitting an updated sitemap with image tags in bing webmaster tools and make sure your robots.txt isn't blocking them. It can take a few weeks for Bing to fully-recrawl.

 

[jennykumar]

Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

why you are allowing this file?

 

[OliverHayes]

Try submitting an image sitemap in bing webmaster tools and ensure your images are crawlable.

 

[goupipoopi]

Try submitting an image sitemap in bing webmaster tools and ensure your images are crawlable.

How do i create a separate image sitemap?

 

[goupipoopi]

why you are allowing this file?

That line is there because you’ve blocked /wp-admin/ for all bots, but many WordPress themes/plugins make front-end AJAX requests to:
/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
If bots can’t fetch that file, some pages won’t fully render during Google’s “render & index” step (things like lazy-loaded content, filters, carts, etc.).

 

[LinkZenith]

Hello!
Use Bing Webmaster Tools + alt tags, schema
and allow images in robots.txt.

 

[tsunaniB]

Bing may not have fully indexed your images yet. Make sure you have an image sitemap submitted in Bing Webmaster Tools, use descriptive alt text, and ensure images are crawlable without robots.txt restrictions. Regularly monitor indexing and resubmit sitemaps if needed.

 

[goupipoopi]

Hello!
Use Bing Webmaster Tools + alt tags, schema
and allow images in robots.txt.

i already have alt tags, schema image object. how do i allow images in robots.txt?