I have been trying to get my website to show decently in bing, Google, Yahoo, heck, Altavista have all indexed the site well.
My webmaster tools tell me over 3000 pages are indexed.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=site:www.anytimehealth.com
click say page 4, no results. I dont get it.
This shouldnt take so long to be listed. I have a site map, I have a robots.txt, I am really trying to help and it seems as if every other search engine figured this out.
I just want to make sure that your question is clear before attempting to answer it.
Your website is indexed by Bing, check. You show up in SERPs for queries related to your domain name, check.
Are you concerned about the NUMBER of indexed pages in Bing or are you concerned about your ability to rank well for certain keywords?
The short answer to indexing is that Bing won't index pages that do not have backlinks pointing to them. As a result, Bing's index is much smaller than Goog. As far as ranking is concerned, that's a different thing altogether and you would need to provide some keywords and examples.
good luck,
J
I am concerned that the number of pages bing says it has indexed, just under 3000, only 8 show up. Click the link above and see. It shows pagination at the bottom as if there is more content, but when you click any of them you get nothing.
I am doing a basic search "site:www.anytimehealth.com" bing is saying " I have 3000 results" but only returning 8 to the user.
I also find it surprising that Bing only indexes pages that other pages link to, I dont know why Bing/MS would choose to be the very last to index content when they are trying to gain marketshare. That being said, many of the pages not showing in the index are back linked fine. This is actually quite embarrasing I would think, to have good results pull up in the other major engines but not bing.
Just check once again all the url indexed in bing.
ryanlm2: I am concerned that the number of pages bing says it has indexed, just under 3000, only 8 show up. Click the link above and see. It shows pagination at the bottom as if there is more content, but when you click any of them you get nothing. I am doing a basic search "site:www.anytimehealth.com" bing is saying " I have 3000 results" but only returning 8 to the user. I also find it surprising that Bing only indexes pages that other pages link to, I dont know why Bing/MS would choose to be the very last to index content when they are trying to gain marketshare. That being said, many of the pages not showing in the index are back linked fine. This is actually quite embarrasing I would think, to have good results pull up in the other major engines but not bing.
How old is your site?
Its about 10 months old.
I checked again today and its listing 2500 records found but only able to display 3 :(
But in my browser, I can see a lot of pages indexed.
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ryanlm2: Its about 10 months old. I checked again today and its listing 2500 records found but only able to display 3 :(
Solve internal duplicate content issue:
Content on your homepage can be accessed via these URLs:www . yoursite . com/yoursite . com/Use 301 redirect and canonical link element to solve this issue.
Also, try to get some more relevant/quality backlinks.
Bing seems to be slow in indexing newish sites: so you may have to wait for a little longer time to see good results in Bing.
Ok, what other said about Bing's index being small and all that is true. It is different. Bing has no issue crawling all pages of a site but they then to remove pages that are not authoritative.
Having said that, you have some serious issues. Now Bing only has 3 pages indexed so something is going on.
It looks like you have recently changed the URL structure of your pages. For instance, if I load the URL http://www.anytimehealth.com/nutrition it will resolve to http://www.anytimehealth.com/nutrition-basics
Here's the problem: In the case above, the redirect from /nutrition to /nutrition-basics is a 302 and Bing won't follow to the destination of the new location with a 302 (temporary) redirect. Google will keep showing the old URL but won't delete it out of their index. In either case, the page is going to suffer in rank.
Secondly, other URLs such as this one: (http://www.anytimehealth.com/en-us/fitness)
use a 301 redirect to /fitness and the that URL 302 redirects to /fitness-basics before it finally resolves. This type of redirect chain is also something that will cause Bing to give up on a site.
I strongly suggest taking a detailed look into your URL structures and make sure that any redirected pages utilize a single, direct 301 redirect to the permanent location.
Best of luck,
ok, I did that, anything else I can do to help bing do its job?
At the begining of this year we removed the en-us portion from our URLs. Every other search engine I have tried has figured this out by now. I have it in my robots.txt to ignore it, I have setup a perm redirect for it.
Some of our pages redirect to the first child page, again, I dont know WHY ONLY BING has an issue with that. How much help do I have to do to get this to index and serve good results?
It also doesn't explain why these URLs are not being index:http://www.anytimehealth.com/communityhttp://www.anytimehealth.com/questionshttp://www.anytimehealth.com/support-groups
As per usual your competion is completely destroying you.
Google, 12,000 + pages, and it will actually return all of them, not just threehttp://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3Awww.anytimehealth.com&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=849e2d790c0ab0e9
Examples of first page rankings on google:http://www.google.com/search?q=change+an+unhealthy+way+of+life&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1 http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft%3Aen-us&q=nutritional+supplements+recommended+during+chemotherapy&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=
Yahoo 10,000+, it also spits out more than 3.
Examples of first page listings on Yahoo:http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Am40ruNBd_o_7.k2egT4KvibvZx4?p=healthiest+grilled+chicken&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu7XfmPFLBuAAc2RXNyoA?p=what+time+do+you+workout&fr2=sb-top&fr=yfp-t-701&sao=0
Alta Vista 10,000+, it also actually has themhttp://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=change+an+unhealthy+way+of+life&kgs=1&kls=0http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=good+shoes+for+a+beginning+runner&kgs=1&kls=0
I have site mapsI have good clean contentI have tons of backlinks (as its parent site is really anytime fitness)Your telling me that a few redirection completely confuses bing? Is it that fragile?Please, Please - DO NOT TAKE OVER YAHOO's search engine!!! Not only are your search results the worst out of the bunch, your webmaster tools are also a mile behind yahoo's and google's - why is this so hard?
I also read that bing doenst crawl more than 3 directories down in a site. WHY!!!!
Sorry, I dont really mean to be a ***, honest. It just its hard to accept that I am getting such wonderful results everywhere else I can think to look, but that something is so wrong bing is having a hard time figuring it out.
We have begun to suggest to not use the "site:" search as the be all end all of your indexing queries. We may, infact, have 2-3,000 urls in our index, but chose to only show a fraction of those pages. Infact, you will get the same type of results for a site search on youtube were we show we have 80,700,000 urls in our index. So, as you can see, this is not us penalizing the smaller sites, it is simply how we chose to display indexing data.
~B
*I no longer work for Bing.
JSherrod: use a 301 redirect to /fitness and the that URL 302 redirects to /fitness-basics before it finally resolves. This type of redirect chain is also something that will cause Bing to give up on a site. I strongly suggest taking a detailed look into your URL structures and make sure that any redirected pages utilize a single, direct 301 redirect to the permanent location. Best of luck,
I agree with JSherrod. I have personally tested all types of redirect chains as part of my investigations. While we generally do not have issues with 301s (except for edge cases), if you mix 302s in there, you will effectively stop us from indexing the destination page or apply any previous rank. It is our policy that 302 redirects are temporary, so we will not keep any information past the 302 on the redirect chain.
I have since fixed those redirects, it has been three weeks, no change. Bing's awful webmaster tools tell me there are 1000+ pages indexed, bings results still show 5.
What is the excuse today? (Yahoo, Google, Altavista, Bob's search all say (and more importantly show) 10K+ results).
ryanlm2: I have since fixed those redirects, it has been three weeks, no change. Bing's awful webmaster tools tell me there are 1000+ pages indexed, bings results still show 5.
Brett has stated above that site: operator in Bing may no longer show all or many of the indexed pages. Bing does not show any links if you use the link: operator: Bing no longer support the link: operator. I guess soon, Bing may also stop supporting the site: operator.
What you see in Bing Webmaster Center might actually be the real/accurate results.
