Bing is not Indexing my site.

[saurabh1905]

Hi,

My website is four months old and has more than 8000 pages. Bing has indexed only 8 pages till date and Google also keeps playing hide and seek with it.

There was a time when google indexed almost all the pages of my site but now there are only 5000 pages indexed. Moreover when I check my site on google (by typing site:socktail.com), it shows only 26 pages.

Please let me know what should I do. If somebody wants to take a look, my website is http://socktail.com

Thanks

[saurabh1905]

Thanks everybody for your response.

I have set up bing webmaster account four days back and I am waiting it to get updated with my website data. I hope it will be able to provide me some insight.

Thanks again.

[hecklerponics]

I would definitely take Martijn and Mossa's steps 1st.  I would also check for duplicate content as Bing is renowned for just de-indexing websites with a large amount of duplicate content (I've seen it as little as 40%).

You'll have to file a re-inclusion request to BING and it can take MONTHS to be processed, so you'll want to make SURE you've got your problems fixed before it gets to a human.

This the form you'll need to fill out (choose indexing issue): https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingwebmaster&ct=eformts

But again I would advise you to check into Bing webmaster tools 1st as it may have had a manual action taken.

Cheers!

[MoosaHemani]

My quick advice here is to install GWT and Bing Webmaster tool to see where is the problem with regards to crawling and indexing. Mostly when the website’s overall structure is not SEO friendly, indexing becomes a problem for search engines.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi,

Have you submitted any XML sitemaps to both Google and or Bing? You're sure you're not blocking out any search engines via META robots or robots.txt?