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Why has my website been removed from Bing?
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my site https://worldunscrambler.net/ is brand new... never registered before I checked the history and can confirm that.....Google index my site but bing gives me an error..
The inspected URL is known to Bing but has some issues which are preventing indexation. We recommend you follow Bing Webmaster Guidelines to increase your chances of indexation.
I don't know why they are doing this to me... I am very frustrated and don't know how to fix that... I contact bing support many times through the search console but they are not replying to me....
if anyone has the solution please please help me out.
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@lindsey-steinkamp My website www.cilacap.info has been running for 3 years this month, but 1 month ago when my website was approved on Bing News, Bing said it had to wait another 2-3 weeks for it to appear on Bing News.
But it's been more than 3 weeks and it doesn't show up and my website was deleted right when my website was approved on bing news.
When asked to Bing I was not satisfied with their explanation, because they said that since the last time my website was crawled it did not comply with Bing standards.
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I'm Facing the same problem for my site https://techinsiderplus.com/
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In year 2022, still facing this problem here. Google index our site normally, but Bing indexes zero page. Previously Bing indexes our pages normally, but since one years ago suddenly traffic from Bing drop to zero, so as indexes. Please could someone help!!! our site: www.360converter.com
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@lindsey-steinkamp
I am facing a similar issue with my website. Everything was working fine , and then Within a few days, my entire website was removed from Bing, Yahoo, and other search partners. I don't know why that happened.Here is the URL to my website https://myelearnpro.com
Can somebody please check what's wrong with it?
Thank you so much for your time!
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@roguetechie Maybe that's not the reason. I'm using Astra and facing the same problem.
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I have the same issue. Suddenly I lost my website traffic from bing for this website https://watchinorder.com/
If someone has any fix, so please share.
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I know this is an old thread but recently I am in the same boat. Have used no black hat seo, and fully comply with bing webmaster guidelines. One day stopped getting bing traffic. Looked and my site was no longer listed.
The response from bing was the same "comply with guidelines, we can't tell you more"
After doing some research I have seen that this has happened to thousands of websites, some of which were 20 years old. I've also come to the conclusion there is not much you can do about it besides reach out to bing and hope you get the right site auditor.
In my case it happened immediately after switching from rank math to seopress so it may be seo related. I noticed seopress was indexing categories and tags which maybe what the problem was because then pages get indexes multiple times and it looks like duplicate content.
I've now set them to no index so we will see but I have little hope.
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I noticed 3 of the sites listed here has GeneratePress as the theme. I use that theme as well. Makes me wonder if it's the theme causing problems.
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I am also facing the same issue.
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But what about https://apkperfect.com/ this site is driving a good amount of traffic and have more than 16k Pages index in Webmaster but didn't show a single page in Bing SERP. Along with this https://gbapps.info/ is also affected by this. Please help me to solve this issue. I have tested various ways but didn't get the result.
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Recently, I've submitted my blog on Bing. After a week, bing removed my tech blog site from the search page. Now, how can I reindex my site on bing? Please, Can anyone give me a proper solution?
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Same problem guys , did someone know the reason ???
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Hey Everyone, I am facing a serious issue. Can anyone from the Community help and suggest me any solution. 5 Months ago I started a brand new fresh blog. It is https://www.looteragang.com/ . I submitted and verified my site at Google, Bing and other Search Engines. As usuaul my traffic started growing. But one day, I saw there is no traffic from Bing. I started searching my Pages in Bing. I found that Bing has totally removed my Domain from search. Instead of showing my Domain, it is now showing my previously used IP address. I don't know what to do please anyone from moz help me regarding this...
This is the my webmaster graph.
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Hi,
I am facing a similar issue with my website. Everything was working fine till May, and then I changed the theme. Within a few days, my entire website was deindexed from Bing, Yahoo, and other search partners. I don't know why that happened.
I have reverted the theme to the same one I was using before May, and still, nothing works!Here is the URL to my website https://trickkas.com
Can somebody please check what's wrong with it? I have tried contacting Bing support, but they don't tell me the issue.
Thank you so much for your time!
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@neena_kakkar Hi, As I can see your site is again up and running on the bing. Could you please help us by sharing any thing that can help us getting back our sites on bing. Thanks!!
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Several times my website listings are hidden from Bing, I don't know why, you guys find the solution for this, I am getting same problem, please guide me with the steps how I can solve this problem, I will be very thankful to you. My website is countrywisecodes.com
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I have a similar problem on my site myfreshgists.com. I researched and found out this;
Past meta tag between tags.
Like this
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Hi
Facing same issue. My website is sportshoesnow
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Hi Lindsey,
They are not the same, but the contractors from Bing that were behind the quality check at that time could have marked that page as duplicative. I saw that happened on Google. Also, I think the issue could be that these two pages look alike in terms of design, and folks from Bing might think there is no reason to have these two pages in the SERPS because they look very similar. They cannot tell the exact issue because you will reverse engineer the problem.
Ross
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Hi Ross,
The website you're referencing is the hospital foundation, a non-profit organization that seeks to raise money for the hospital. It is associated with the hospital but is a separate entity, so they aren't one and the same. I do see what you mean by the similarity in website design, but the content itself is very different so I'm not sure that would cause the issue? Thank you for your help.
Lindsey
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Hi there,
I believe they think that your website is impersonating this website https://www.pardeehospitalfoundation.org
To be honest they look quite similar. Are those two businesses are own by the same company?
Ross
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