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Site Indexed by Google but not Bing or Yahoo
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Hi,
I have a site that is indexed (and ranking very well) in Google, but when I do a "site:www.domain.com" search in Bing and Yahoo it is not showing up. The team that purchased the domain a while back has no idea if it was indexed by Bing or Yahoo at the time of purchase. Just wondering if there is anything that might be preventing it from being indexed? Also, Im going to submit an index request, are there any other things I can do to get it picked up?
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Any chance we can see the site? Matt's completely correct regarding Bing Webmaster Central, I'd start there.
Also:
- Submit an XML sitemap. Any errors that pop up during the processing of the sitemap will help you diagnose the problem.
- Check your log files. See if BingBot or MSNBot show up in the logs. If they don't, then your site's not getting crawled.
- Check robots.txt - any chance the site's outright blocking them?
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I would start by signing up to Bing webmaster central in there under Crawl Control you can set what rate and time of day your site is crawled, bearing in mind that if it is left on standard it will take a long time to crawl and index your site - if you have a large e-commerce site this will definitely cause an issue - I would look at turning this up "full volume" as it shouldn't have any negative effects. Though keep an eye on the impact this has on the load of your server - most reasonable setups will handle this fine. Another very good indicator of any issues your site might have with being indexed by Bing, in the Bing Webmaster Central, is the fetch as Bingbot tool which will allow you to drop a URL in from your site and it will show you what comes back from Bings point of view. If there was something that was hindering it such as a robots.txt it would inform you.
Join Bing Webmaster Central now and see what information it provides you with your site if you haven't already done this.
Also be aware of the Queries per second limit allowed on your server as this has been known to hinder/stop Bing indexing a site when they haven't been able to access the content sufficiently when preforming a crawl especially on larger sites which are constantly being refreshed and updated.
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