Google Has Indexed Most of My Site, why won't Bing?
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We've got 600K+ pages indexed by Google and have submitted our same sitemap.xml's to Bing, but have only seen 100-200 pages get indexed by Bing.
Is this fairly typical? Is there anything further we can do to increase indexation on Bing?
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How much time has passed since you submitted your sitemap to Bing?
I am not sure about other SEO specialists, but I don't spend my time on Bing/Yahoo. As far as I know they have less than 30% of the search market together. I would rather allocate my time on moving more pages of my website to the 1st page of Google.
If you are still concerned about being indexed on Bing try to compare your website with your competitors (who are on Bing of course).
- See how many pages they have indexed.
- See if you can get the same backlinks.
- See what robots.txt they have. (Maybe the problem is in it.)
- See if your site has any errors.
- See if your site is banned from Bing for some reason.
The underscored points are those I would check first.
Warmest regards,
Slava
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Hi James,
Bing is very slow in indexing the pages of any website while the google is very fast and it indexes the pages as soon as possible.That is why the google is rank 1 in the internet world.I also use google most of the time and after that bing and yahoo.
But you don't need to worry because the 80 percent people use google and only 10 percent users use bing.
Bing is also improving gradually and hope that it will also establish itself as a remarkable institution.
Bing's FAQs state that you should do the following on-site seo to rank well in their search engine:
· Target no more than two keywords per page
· Use unique <title>tags on each page</p> <p>· Use unique <meta> description tags on each page</p> <p>· Use H1 tags</p> <p>· Use text navigation links</p> <p>· Create content for your human visitors, not the Bing web crawler</p> <p>· Incorporate keywords into URL strings</p> <p> </p> <p>You can find all those details over here: <a title="http://silverrose.hubpages.com/hub/Optimizing-your-website-for-Bing" href="http://silverrose.hubpages.com/hub/Optimizing-your-website-for-Bing">http://silverrose.hubpages.com/hub/Optimizing-your-website-for-Bing</a></p> <p> </p></title>
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