Bing problem

[dannyx]

Hello
Problem may be too big a word, since Bing hardly counts as a search engine, however, one thing surprises me.

google indexes my site with no problem.

And bing in no way can, in webmaster tools there are search requests all the time without being able to index by some error.
Then it scans in Bing this site and shows no errors.

Robots.txt is ok
htacces also
Bing robots are not blocked (even added bot IPs as not harmful to be sure)
I disabled plugins I disabled security and also nothing.

Also do you have that google has no problem and bing can't index?

[DaftDog]

Have you tried deleting this site completely from Bing webmaster tools and re-listing it?

[dannyx]

I haven't tried it yet.
Thanks for the suggestions.
I will try this.

[pokeraussie]

I haven't used the bing search engine in years. Just realised I rank first for my primary keyword but the traffic it sends is negligible. Duckduckgo sends the same amount of organic traffic.

[dannyx]

DuckDuckGo does not have its own algorithm and uses this Bing so probably Bing/Duck items are similar for different passwords.
Also if Bing doesn't index something then DuckDuckGo doesn't have it either.

Such a curiosity :P

[chaumi]

On mobile sorry for any typos….

just a theory ( but a sensible one and born out through personal experiences)

I suspect B gives even more weight than G to age and a steady build over time. Links are important, too. They say you need to have at least one. If true, then reality is you’d need that to be a strong one…or you’d need multiple lower quality to cover the risk of the pages they’re on not getting indexed/crawled.

[dannyx]

The previous site, also a new one that I no longer run, Bing indexed immediately.

On mobile sorry for any typos….

just a theory ( but a sensible one and born out through personal experiences)

I suspect B gives even more weight than G to age and a steady build over time. Links are important, too. They say you need to have at least one. If true, then reality is you’d need that to be a strong one…or you’d need multiple lower quality to cover the risk of the pages they’re on not getting indexed/crawled.

Disabling the service and re-adding the service with importing data from Google Search Console did nothing, and still Bing requests a search and displays that it cannot index.

Errors like: Bing knows the verified URL, but due to errors it cannot index it.

Or at the home page: When trying to retrieve content, the verified URL returned an HTTP 4xx error. Make sure this is the intended action. If the page has been moved to a different location, apply an appropriate redirect.



Robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

Sitemap: https:......

[gm2891]

It is also possible that your domain is blacklisted by Bing if it was once owned by someone else.

[CiaranMc]

we have a [news] site in the same situation - google loves it, bing refuses to index it.

we submitted a support ticket via bing WMT, got a seemingly automatic and useless reply 4 or 5 weeks later saying "bing only accepts high quality sites" in their index, or something.

[dannyx]

I tried it with another page without content, just the domain and 2 words on the home page and Bing indexed it, and this page does not want it.
It works strangely.

I checked a lot of things and found nothing so I am not looking any further. Bing has zero market share practically anyway so it seems it's not a game worth the effort.