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PGD2011 Subscriber last edited by

Working with a business that is having some real issues.

They had some client information that was showing up in the meta description. Personal phone numbers for example. Our developers removed all the information from the pages in question two days ago, but we are still seeing the info in the meta description. Any idea how long this will take to be recrawled and fixed?

Anything I can do to get recrawled sooner?

Also, this is only happening in Bing/Yahoo and not in Google.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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PGD2011 Subscriber last edited by

Thanks Brad!
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bradwayland Subscriber last edited by

Bing Webmaster Tools should be able to help here.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/submit-urls-to-bing-62f2860a

You can submit up to 10 urls a day for immediate crawl. I know the point is for new sites but this should be effective for you as well.
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