Weird Issue with Bing/Yahoo

Hi guys,

Ive been having an issue with bing/yahoo lately, my pages just don't seem to get indexed beyond the initial domain name, my pages have keyword titles as the file name so should rank higher, I'm trying to rank for town/city names and do local SEO for clients.

I've only submitted a HTML site map as the site is static html but I am now submitting an XML sitemap to see if that works.

Anyone experience this before and know a solution?

Thanks in advance.

Fastlaner,

Do you have your target keywords in your meta tags? Bing (and by default Yahoo) use these to detect spammers and Google simply doesn't use them as a factor in ranking pages. You may try removing keywords from the keyword meta tag and see how that helps.

Here is an article on that topic,

http://www.fahrenheitmarketing.com/search-engines/bing-uses-meta-keywords-tag-to-detect-spammers/

Hope that helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

Yes the site is static and has meta tags, I have loaded 5 keywords into here so not stuffing it, I used to get really good rankings from bing and yahoo but it seems bing just doesn't like indexing my deep pages or even my site sometimes, the strange thing is that yahoo has indexed both of my clients websites but again no deep pages.

I will try removing the meta tags and report back, thanks for the heads up.

Did you add your sitemaps to bing and yahoos webmaster tools? If i remember right they got these just as google webmaster. Not 100% sure but you should look it up

There is also some content that I basically copied from the main page and changed the keywords for, this are locational pages so something like /accountant-cityname.html - do you think these could be causing the issue aswell?