On August twenty fourth, I used to be listening to @radiomorillo‘s The Developer’s Information to search engine optimization Audits in a panic as a result of she was wrapping up her content material (actually already miss her on-line, however I do know this was your best option for her ❤️) and taking issues offline. I am extremely motivated by deadlines.
I reached out to our net strategist:
Fast query, do you additionally use Bing Webmaster instruments?
Sure, however not usually was the response I obtained and, as a result of I am curious, I signed in and had her add me.
Though, it seems to be just like the camunda.io websites broke on July 6…unsure what is going on on there.
Neat.
Then 5 minutes later our docs website crashed.
Unrelated, however the foreshadowing was unbelievable.
From there I launched into a journey that was elements annoying and elements validating and elements doing the identical factor time and again anticipating completely different outcomes. What? The web advised me to.
Bing, someday round July sixth, determined to de-index docs.camunda.io for causes I could by no means know. No warning, simply gone.
I submitted a legitimate sitemap that was already obtainable to crawlers. The positioning was indexable and listed on Google. Then I began digging into different search engine’s like DuckDuckGo.
For those who really made it right here earlier than being like “Amara, who cares about Bing?” – congrats.
Everybody ought to care about Bing should you suppose anybody in your viewers is anti-Google. Bing is definitely a part of the info that DuckDuckGo and different non-Google engines like google use as a result of they do not construct and keep their very own search index.
The venn diagram is a separate circle for Google, and a few form of mess of overlapping circles for Bing, DuckDuckGo, and everybody else, which I, not shockingly, did not be taught at any level in my 4 yr BS in CS.
So I submitted a help ticket for our website on August twenty sixth and was pleasantly shocked to get an auto response saying I might get a reply in 10 days.
…
November 1st, I used the portion of my mind solely dedicated to resubmitting the sitemap and requesting indexing on the very same pages Bing de-indexed, as I’ve for months, however earlier than I might I observed a change – docs.camunda.io WAS indexable AND listed says Bing Webmaster Instruments.
I didn’t obtain a response from Bing Webmaster Instruments help in 10 days. I have never obtained a response AT ALL. The truth is, you possibly can’t electronic mail anybody or something with out it bouncing.
I now be part of the group of people that haven’t any proof there’s a group of people behind Bing Webmaster Instruments after submitting a report and getting an automatic electronic mail I can’t reply to that stated I might anticipate a response in 10 days. That was August twenty sixth.
15:35 PM – 01 Nov 2022
The one factor that modified between July sixth and now could be each time we revealed docs adjustments and each time I had a spare cycle in my total cognitive load, I requested indexing on the top-nav or excessive degree pages within the docs. I requested the house web page. I resubmitted the sitemap.
After which I forgot about it for like 2 weeks as a result of life and it seemingly wasn’t an issue anymore.
For those who take pleasure in folks largely speaking to themselves on points for an annoying downside with seemingly no resolution, do I’ve the subject for you.
But when that did not promote it for you, right here is this nugget:
Appears to be like like that is taking place to people, seems to be high-quality on Google, however not high-quality on Bing.
https://www.jessesquires.com/weblog/2022/03/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo/
https://www.jessesquires.com/weblog/2022/07/25/my-website-disappeared-from-bing-and-duckduckgo-part-2/To recap: I did nothing, Bing de-indexed my web site, Bing stated I violated its tips, I continued to do nothing, Bing restored my web site, and now every part appears (largely) high-quality.
https://io.bikegremlin.com/28530/microsoft-bing-serp-gone-overnight/
I do not know Jesse Squires but when he did not sum up his expertise in a manner that each validated and horrified me, I am certain I might have given up, wontfix, labeled this downside as NP-complete, and cried as a result of computer systems suck.
I depart you with this:
And you may Bing it your self. We’re again on Bing and my cognitive load is only a hair freer.
