I have noticed, time and again, not just on my site, but on many sites of even my competitors or even somewhat popular sites (I've picked random ones sometimes), that while sometimes increasing, many of the old pages simply disappear. I've seen site pages drop from 100 to 20. I've seen more than one blogspot go from over 100 pages to 1 or 2 posts showing up, etc. but the problem is not isolated there and straight up .com's have the same issue. These were *not* spam, but quality sites mind you!Can someone shed light to me on *why* Bing deletes/purges old posts from quality sites? Is there an information overload and bing prioritizes certain information from the web (and older stuff tends to lose rank)? So if you don't "make the cut" your old posts disappear? that's the only theory I can come up with that makes sense.A good example is the established, reputable, google pagerank 5, sports website I read (i do not run it), which had over 300 pages in bing, and now has dropped to 76, despite having over 2,000 pages in google. That's merely one example of what I am questioning. Why does this occur? Is my theory that Bing is choosing not to store all of the net in disk space true? that it deletes pages that don't make the "cut" especially older pages?Why else could it be that my sites, and even other people's sites, even popular sites like that one are losing pages, instead of consistently gaining as it should be?
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Oh, for some reason I left out the url of the reputable site I read which has disappearing pages, it is http://sportsmediawatch.blogspot.com/ but that's not the point and it's only one of the many websites I've seen losing pages steadily over time (even if a few new ones pop up here and there).
Bing is still a young search engine. There are most likely some kinks to work out still. They are working hard to improve the quality of Bing all the time. However, I too have seen odd behavior. For example, my webmaster tools show my site as being indexed by Bing, yet when I do a site: search I get no results. We can only hope that they keep working on ironing out the issues.
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Apparently, not. This is odd, after I made my reply here the site I mentioned went from 74 pages to 694.... in a matter of HOURS, however it jumped back down to 74 after a few minutes. It's weird. If a MSN employee can explain what is going on exactly, I'd love to know.
Hi Jingo,
It is always easy to blame the search engine when we see strange behaviour, but I think what you are seeing is the gradual inclusion of links into the data. Your are also more likely to see the same faults in your own sector, because your competitors will be looking for links with the same or similar websites.
I wouldn't be surprised if, rather than a problem with your site, there is actually an update of data from a linking site which is changing the balance of power in the serps. Because Bing is still growing it will be showing a greater tendency to radical swings than other search engines, due to the sudden inclusion of new sites with new links.
There is literally nothing that an individual can do but wait for the serps to include more sites and then things will calm down.
All the best in your struggles
Spencer ( Exercise makes you strong, strength makes you confident and confidence makes you attractive )
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When your pages ( all of them ) are gone from SERP of Bing then it certainly is a time to worry particularly when your content is original!
I agree with jingo1388 that bing is showing some strange behavior. I assume, there may be a few bugs which needs to be sorted out.
Here is my nightmare!
Until yesterday many of my pages were giving me good traffic through Bing, but from today onwards all pages are gone from the SERP.
Interestingly my webmaster tools still show 200+ pages indexed. No crawling errors and all the other details like internal links, external links are showing no problems. But all pages are gone from SERP. When i click to find which 200+pages are index the answer is "
(i have replaced the sitename to yoursite.com )
Is there a way to notify this problem to Bing/ Microsoft? This case study may actually help them to find out the bugs if any and sort them out!
Many people complain about this strange behavior and I witness it too. But I don't think it's a choice that Bing developers made not to store a lot of information. Rather I reckon Bing doesn't have a large index like Google, and from what I heard, they're working to expand it.
But this happens with Google as well. Last week my directory went from over eleven thousand indexed pages to 3,500 plus and stayed like that for days. Then it went back to 11,000 plus and now it's down to 9,650 indexed pages.
No search engine algorithm is perfect but they work hard to do their best. However, Bing still has some tuneup to do.
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Glad I found this thread I was just about to post a similar issue.
I have been trying for 2 months to get BING to index more than Home page of my site.
Finaly on 20th Oct BING webmaster says it has index 11 pages, which while not a lot should be about 50% of my small site so I'm happier.
But when I look at Top 5 Pages on webmaster 4 of these are valid current pages, but 1 is an old page that has been excluded by my Robots.txt file fore at least 2 months!
However it gets worse as when I try site:mysite I only get 3 pages and out of these only my Home page is valid - both of the others are old Robots disallowed pages.
I thought I'd give it a few days to see if maybe BINGs internal index took time to catch up with indexing but it is still showing exactly the same.
So basically despite BING saying it has finally indexed 11 of my pages - really I'm no better off as only the Home page is still showing for site: !
I'm not an SEO expert but it seems to me that BING indexing is seriously broken.
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Spencer, I am not blaming the search engine, and I am NOT TALKING ABOUT SERPS (search engine results pages for keywords), I am talking about the indexing of specific sites (site:www.yoursite.com) that constantly get cut down in number, I've seen at least 10 sites go from hundreds of pages each of them, all drop to low numbers, sometimes just 1, 5, 10, 20 pages... nonetheless cut down in size nearly a hundred fold. The problem seems to me to be more disk space related, I believe.I just wanted an answer from someone at microsoft on the issue.I am curious if it has to do with their ranking system. Rather than rank an entire site, microsoft ranks every subpage as well, and perhaps if the subpages drop to rank 0 they are removed from the index? is this right?
Errr, by rank I mean the "page score" system. My basic question is: If a page has 0 page score is it removed from Bing's index? That could explain the fluctuations, since page score is fluctuating.
There is soem interesting commentry on this issue also here -
http://www.bing.com/community/forums/t/650900.aspx
