You can take a look at Bing’s support article on what to do if you’re not in the index. Go through and check to make sure everything is fine with your website. Now the chances are good that if Google is indexing your site, you won’t have a problem with Bing. So what to do next? Send them an email !
If a site ranks well in Google but isn’t anywhere to be found in Bing or Yahoo, chances are good your site isn’t suffering from a penalty. Google seems to have strict penalties and lots of algorithm changes but not Bing and Yahoo. If this is the case for your website, read on and i’ll explain what you can do to get your website indexed.
How long does it take for Bing to index a website?
It might take a few days or a week for Bing to gather data once your website once you have signed up and submittted your sitemap. When you do, you can go to your dashboard and you’ll see this: If you look at the pages crawled and see your site is getting crawled but see that zero pages are getting indexed, then you have an issue.
Why is my site or page not in the index?
If it turns out that no result is returned and your site or page is not in the index, it could be due to any or a combination of the following: Your site is new and we haven’t discovered and crawled it yet : With new websites it can take Bing time to find links and crawl through to your website.
Why bing fails?
One of the reasons why it’s so hard for Website owners to do well in Bing is that the Web marketing community shares so little information about Bing. PPC marketers have a much better collective wisdom about Bing than the unpaid search marketers who scratch their heads over Bing.
The tried heavily in making people use the Bing browser (they made up a phrase ‘bing it’ like ‘google it’ for promotion). They eventually got a lot of users but couldn’t reach the popularity of google chrome. All these reasons made bing to fail in the search engine competition. But Practically speaking, Bing didn’t fail completely., and here’s why.
Why Bing is unable to crack the Google barrier is probably not a simple equation, although certainly the leadership at Microsoft (both past and present) has failed to demonstrate much in-depth knowledge of the searchable Web ecosystem. If Steve Ballmer had really grokked Web search he never would have cut a deal with Yahoo!.
Google killed Bing by NOT trying to provide the best possible search results. Of course, to hear Googlers talk about their search engine, they always put quality first but their idea of quality is more quotidian than Microsoft’s. I used to see people complain about not being able to get their sites indexed in Bing all the time.