Bing Update?
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With all of the talk about Panda V2 I am just curious as to whether Bing has also updated their algorithm in the past month. I have seen some reports about the number of indexed pages dropping in half on June 10th as reported in bing's webmaster tools, as well as experiencing that drop on our websites, and a significant decrease in rankings do to them dropping some high performing pages out of their index.
So Just wondering if anyone else had seen this or had any info on an algorithm update rolled out from bing.
Cheers,
Josh
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Thought I'd post a follow up on our 6 months later to see if anyone else has seen a similar pattern in Bing rankings.
- Peaked at the end of June
- (compared to previous average rank) Declined by ~15% to end of July
- Same until end of Aug
- Declined by ~20% until end of Sept
- Improvement of ~15% until the end of Oct
- Decline by ~45% in mid-Nov (pretty much back to same levels) as beginning of June levels - mention on WebmasterWorld about this:
- Same until now
There have been changes to the content on the site, so not too surprised at some of the results, but would be good to know if the regularity of changes to the Bing algo has been seen by others...
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Will keep an eye on it for sure and add a note here if / when it changes (see if you get corresponding behaviour...)
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There seems to be no talk, just a few webmaster reporting sharp drops (or more favorably, sharp increases). But nothing from Bing that I have been able to find. Congrats though on the increase, would be curious to hear if you see it drop off or if it stays the same.
Thanks for the note,
Cheers!
Josh
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I was just about to post a very similar question! Have also seen a change in the same time period, although in the opposite direction - the change is significant enough for me to suspect an algo change...
Have tried Googling (how ironic) to see if there's been any chatter about it, but could find nothing... Would be great if anyone knows something concrete.
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Hi Ryan, thanks for the response and help. I was not aware of that feature, thanks for the tip.
We have three sites, all of which experienced significant drops all on the 10th but are slowly regaining indexation and ranking. We have never had a fully indexed site with bing, all are above 7,000 pages (ecommerce), with 3-4 thousand pages indexed. One went from 3000 down to 1500 in one day, the other two lost about 30% of their indexed pages. Just seemed really odd, and I saw a couple of other people on Bing's blog complaining of large drops on June 10th (doubly odd). Will continue to investigate.
Cheers!
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I have not discovered any recent issues with Bing.
How many pages are on your site?
Bing Webmaster Tools offers the ability to manually add up to 50 pages into the Bing Index (10 per day max). I would suggest taking advantage of this feature for your most important pages while continuing to troubleshoot your site's issue.
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