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Discovered but not crawled | URL cannot appear on Bing
Hi, I'm facing a problem with indexation.
A few days ago, All URLs of my site were indexed within seconds. But now it says
"The inspected URL is known to Bing but has some issues which are preventing indexation. We recommend you to follow Bing Webmaster Guidelines to increase your chances of indexation."
Here is the site URL: (link removed by moderator)
It is an educational site, and none of the URLs violates bing guidelines. Even the site is getting indexed in Google with no issue. Please suggest to me a solution what to do.
I have already tried APIs but nothing
You can see the details in an image.
John_Bloggs1705 Same here - Discovered but not crawled. My site was indexed in Bing for many years and then it just stopped 6 months ago, totally de-listed - dropped like a rock to zero in one day. Nothing I've tried from their guidelines or site scan feedback has helped. Support was responsive but ultimately of no help and stopped responding - "we're looking into it" turned into "there's an issue with your site that needs to be fixed". LOL any idea what that may be because Google sure seems to like the site.
URL Inspection tells me "URL Cannot appear on Bing" because "issues that are preventing indexation" but Live URL inspection tells me "URL Can be Indexed by Bing" if it "passes quality checks and gets indexed by Bing". How did we end up in Bing Jail, and how do we get out? You have issues!You have NO issues!
Well, it appears Bing has some serious issues with their index. My website with non-commercial, really helpful content has the same issues, while another neglected, outdated website of mine is still rising through their rankings without any issues.
Strange.
John_Bloggs1705 Same here. Looks like I've been unindexed for year or two now. I never really got many hits from Bing, but this could be why. Surprisingly, this is a website that has been going for about 10+ years with reputable content no shady backlinks. In fact, the site has links from Wikipedia, IMDB, and so on. I thought it might be a competitor filing a complaint or something, but it looks more like Microsoft's tech team messing something up.
There really is no reason for these sites to be removed. If there was, they'd be forthcoming with the details. The xml file from webmaster tools is uploaded, added a meta description, site is still in Google with lots of traffic. It is really frustrating and feels like no one at Microsoft cares. Ad revenue is already pretty bad this time of the year so any drop in traffic hurts. Contacted support several days ago but no response yet.
I have this same exact problem, it's been an entire month and Bing's webmaster shows this error, it could've been better if it shows you the exact error but for some reason we have nothing but this frustrating message leaving us confused, I've checked my website and it doesn't have any problem with Bing's guidelines, my site is indexed on Google but for some reason Bing won't accept it.
- I found same issue from last 3 years, still no solution. Website indexed on google properly.
Did you found any solution?No not yet.
- I have this exact same issue on my site. I tried to reach support and they just checked and sent the only URL that was showing on bing. I get literally 50k pageviews from google every month and 5 from bing. Bad support from Bing.
- Have the same issue since beginning of June 2022. For one main site and 2 secondary sites on subdomains. When I type site:mysite.tld in Bing search I only get "some results had been removed".
Only under the picture tab, all images of my sites coming up;
My sites were very well referenced in Bing for more than 7 years and had removed without any reason one day over the other.
I wrote to support but didn't get an answer yet. I think it might be a bug
John_Bloggs1705 Try once cache clear. For my case i have found out that my page's live version is showing blank due to cache plugin may be but it is due to amp plugin's cache core web vitals to be precise. simple deactivate that and in live version atleast it is showing correctly. After that you can re submit sitemap and wait for 1-2 days to see if some changes happen on bing search results.
- Hello, I have the same problem. Anybody have a solutions? in october, 0 pages indexed. Thank you
- Hey mate, I checked your site is back on Bing, what you do, how do you solve this issue?
- As a heads-up, we don't allow external links/ads here, so we've removed the link in your original post. Sorry for the hassle. We recommend you reach out to Bing webmaster support about issues like this: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/webmaster-support-24ab5ebf
EricStarker I have submitted roughly 30 support requests over the last 4 months to Webmaster Support, from multiple webmaster emails/accounts, and have not gotten so much as a simple confirmation email back.
Really, unbelievable.isaiahmiller I had the same issue but it got resolved automatically and my site is now indexed, I did nothing.
Infact sending email to bing webmaster team was of no help. Just keep patience it will be fixed automatically.
- I have the same issue about this,
This happened to my site since march 2022,
I dunno where the problem is,
Tried to get in touch bing support.
Hope can solve this problem soon.I had this same issue and after working out a little, I found out that the URL with http:// VS https:// has to be submitted separately for indexing and canonical URLs should be adjusted accordingly.
Also, the file BingSiteAuth.xml verification files need to be reuploaded again.
After doing the above process made me get a reply from Bing Webmaster Support Tools Team telling they will respond regarding this
Hello folks, writing an email to bwtsupport @ microsoft.com worked. They responded back and helping me out to resolve the issue for (external link removed by moderator)
It would seem that Bing's index has some severe problems. The same problems affect my website's non-commercial, incredibly helpful information, however my abandoned, out-of-date website is still climbing the search engine results pages without any problems.
