What is going on with Bing lately?
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I am working on a clients site and the last two weeks rankings and traffic have gone down hill. I have taken Bing rankings for a grain of salt lately because they seem sporadic in my ranking tools. I did some manual checks and my client's site does not even index or rank on Bing when searching by their domain. Also why is the Bing site index results so off. My client has 29,000 pages under Google but in Bing they have only 40. What am I missing?
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Hi Jen, thanks for the update. I'm very happy that you now have one less headache to deal with. Hooray!
Christy
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It actually turns out to be a problem with our Comcast business connection. What we have been told is we were only seeing local results, which was due to the fact that they were updating the lines in the area. It took a fight to get Comcast to agree they were the problem, but it is all fixed now!
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Hi Jen! Were you able to resolve this issue? We'd love a status update, thanks!
Christy
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Hi All,
We think we have this figured out and we believe it is a Comcast ISP issue. For some reason we only are having this issue on a Comcast internet connect. AT&T U-Verse and cellular data gives us the right results but on the three Comcast connections we tried it is give us the same errors.
Keep you all posted!
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Jen - My huge apologies. I meant to respond to another question, and I just typed in the wrong tab. Darn multi-tasking! Let me take a look at this in a moment... Again...oops!
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What about the fact that even the domain is not indexing in Bing?
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So, taking a look at your site vs. other sites...
The other sites that rank ahead of you all have the keywords you are trying to rank at the beginning of the title tag. Yours starts four words in.
(see screenshot)The 1st ranked result has the keywords in the title tag, and in the page name (not directory)
www.zeldadungeon.net/Zelda15-a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough.phpSame thing for the 4th ranked result:
www.linkshideaway.com/a-link-between-worlds-walkthrough/Your page has 346 words of content; the top #1 ranked page has more than four times that amount of content at 1399.
Sometimes Google will rank pages well that have short content.
In this case, I think that Google's algorithm is determining that a site that has lots of content, graphics and information is somehow more useful to the end user.
My recommendation: Beef up the amount of content on your page, and include a few more screenshots.
I know that this is tricky for something that you are selling, when what you are selling is the content. It's a balancing act.
I have a page that I wrote for an extremely competitive term that ranks very well. It has more than 12,000 words of content and 80+ screenshots. Does everyone who lands on the page read all 12,000 words, or watch the 48 minute video? No... But it outranks other pages that are just a few words of content.
Hope this helps!
- Jeff
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