Bing and Yahoo Indexing
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I have a young site (6 most) that is almost completely indexed by Google but Bing and Yahoo will only index a few pages.
Does anyone have any tips for getting more pages indexed in Bing and Yahoo. The site is registered with Bing Webmaster tools and has a valid XML sitemmap.
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Could be....although I was pretty careful about how I set it up. Google is indexing everything I post within half an hour.
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Add better internal linking to your site. Bing and Yahoo take longer but not 6 months long which leads me to believe that the navigation is hard to get to or worse yet, orphaned pages.
Link to these hard to index pages from other sites where engines live on too.
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Then, PM me the URL to have a look
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If you PM with the url, I will happy to take a look.
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Yes, I did this right off the bat.
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Have you submitted the xml sitemap in bing webmaster tool? If not do it right now.
Generally people don't bother about Yahoo! and Bing, but we can't forget that Bing and Yahoo still occupies the 2nd and 3rd spot when it comes to search engines.
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Sorry, 6 mos. The site is about 200 pages and is almost completely indexed by Google to the point where they are indexing new pages shorty after I publish them.
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6 what? days/weeks/months?
Bing/Yahoo do often seem slower to index new sites to be honest. If it is 6 days or 6 weeks I'd not panic too much. if they have found the site they'll find their way through it (barring crawl issues). 6 months I'd be concerned unless it is a massive site.
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