Bing is crawling our website but not indexing it! Why?

smhripon

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Bing is crawling our website but not indexing it, and we cannot figure out why -- plus it's being indexed fine in Google. Any ideas on what the issue with Bing might be?

Here's are some details to let you know what we've already checked/established: We have already established our Robots is ok, and that we are fixing our site map/it's in fine shape We do not see anything blocking bingbot access to the site There is no varnish or any load balancers, so nothing on that end that would be blocking the access We also don't see any rules in the apache or the .htaccess config that would be blocking the access There is no copyright issue.
 
Your website is how many months old and what niche?
Website age 1 month. total published article: 100+. All of the articles have been indexed and well ranked on google. Niche: Evergreen
 
Bing has an issue in these days, randomly blocking legit sites. One of my white hat website suddenly removed from bing search. I am still in contact with support for weeks now. They say that they are still investigating.
 
Bing has an issue in these days, randomly blocking legit sites. One of my white hat website suddenly removed from bing search. I am still in contact with support for weeks now. They say that they are still investigating.
I have also contacted Bing support. They replied:

Hi There,

Thank you for writing to Bing Webmaster Support.

I reviewed your site but unfortunately when I was investigating, I saw that your site is still under going through validation which can be a reason why we are not indexing it. I am checking with my team. I will update you once I hear back from them.
 
I also have same problem with bing. Try this you can go to Bing webmaster tool and submit manually all the URLs you want to get Indexed.
 
Yandex have been d!ck to me, always have problems. Just a waste of time.
I wouldn't bother for like next 10 years untill it get to 1% search share.

But ya go for bing. Submitting urls for indexing via bing search console does trick to me so far.
It is notorious for deindexing like yandex.
It will even deindex you for any pertucular country. So steay top of that.
Microsoft is claiming it had "added 88 million" users in 2021. I dont know how that translates to searches which is what we want. We are not dumb, Bill gates!
But ya it got potential.
 
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