Bing/Yahoo Removing Sites Over Thanksgiving?

Bing Removing Sites Deindexing

[beer234]

Starting on 11/24 I noticed my impressions dropped from 3600-4600 to 600 and this has continued since Thanksgiving. Upon investigating I noticed that hundreds of my sites have been de-indexed from Bing and thus Yahoo. These are sites that are fine in Google and they cross various topics from travel to job hunting to car buying etc. I submitted a reinclusion request and the response I got from Bing was that they verified the website was not in the index but that it was not blocked or banned. They suggested I update the website. Anyone else notice a mass removal of websites from Bing and Yahoo? Odd they would acknowledge that the website is not in the index and that is is not banned but would not explain or acknowledge the removal from the index.

[lucy24]

Obvious piece of information that you forgot to give: Any change in recent bingbot activity?

[SEOPTI]

They constantly remove URLs which don't meet their quality standards. The index is just a small fraction of Goog index but it's better because they don't keep all the junk.

[Love2Blog]

Starting on 11/24 I noticed my impressions dropped from 3600-4600 to 600 and this has continued since Thanksgiving. Upon investigating I noticed that hundreds of my sites have been de-indexed from Bing and thus Yahoo. These are sites that are fine in Google and they cross various topics from travel to job hunting to car buying etc. I submitted a reinclusion request and the response I got from Bing was that they verified the website was not in the index but that it was not blocked or banned. They suggested I update the website. Anyone else notice a mass removal of websites from Bing and Yahoo? Odd they would acknowledge that the website is not in the index and that is is not banned but would not explain or acknowledge the removal from the index.

Yes it happened to me too, old good sites that ranked for some time nowhere to be found.

New sites that get indexed, rank around page 2 or page 1 for a couple of weeks and then suddenly gone from index.

Have you tried updating? I don't see it helping, I update all the time and I haven't seen anything return, I think they're full of it and lying to you or they tweaked their algo wrong and it's just killing a lot of sites by mistake.

You might want to read this post from Search Engine Land where it's confirmed they are removing whatever they deem "thin low value", and they claim this has been on going, but Search Engine Land proves otherwise, seems reactionary to Panda.

[searchengineland.com...]

They constantly remove URLs which don't meet their quality standards. The index is just a small fraction of Goog index but it's better because they don't keep all the junk.

I will have to disagree, the only thing in Bing is brands and lame article sites now, mostly about 5 pages of results for any keyword you run and nothing but the same over and over.

I find very little "quality" in Bing these days.

Not everything they remove is junk or low quality, several of my sites were not junk and how about the removal of the original creators of Cyber Monday and their deals site this shopping season, one of the biggest holiday shopping sites of all time, only to replace it with their own copycat deals site, you can read the story in the link I gave above.

[beer234]

I'll give it to you that many of my sites would qualify as "thin". However there were also many removed that call into question the value of a search engine that would remove these. Take for example my neighborhood homeowners association. We have a small website where we post the board minutes, contact information, newsletters, bylaws etc. Bing removed even that. So if there is one HOA that goes by that name and when you search for it you cannot find the official website then what good is a search engine?

[Love2Blog]

I'll give it to you that many of my sites would qualify as "thin". However there were also many removed that call into question the value of a search engine that would remove these. Take for example my neighborhood homeowners association. We have a small website where we post the board minutes, contact information, newsletters, bylaws etc. Bing removed even that. So if there is one HOA that goes by that name and when you search for it you cannot find the official website then what good is a search engine?

No, I completely agree with you, I'm not saying your sites are thin, I am saying that's what they're saying, several of the sites they took out of mine are in no way thin, affiliate sites yes, but one had over 400 indexed pages of written original content.

Just checked another site this morning, and they took out a few more individual pages of the site, other pages still ranking, but not as many as the other day.

Maybe there is something else going on, but I can't imagine what, I checked and my sites and have no tech issues.

I also read a thread over at Warrior Forum where the OP had the same issue. I imagine were not the only ones, it's just no one checks Bing.