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Reconsideration form for Bing?

lost 99% of indexed pages and 100% of Bing traffic

         

1script

9:01 pm on Aug 15, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Do you guys know if Bing has a reconsideration form similar to Google's? I have a site that suddenly lost 99% of its previously stable for 3+ years amount of indexed pages, and all traffic from Bing stopped. Bing WMT usually sends all sorts of messages for far less drastic issues, but there is nothing on this in the messages. There were no big redesigns for 2+ years, not many new links, good or bad, not much at all was happening with the site until this sudden de-indexing. If Bing had the reconsideration form, I would love to fill it out. Not sure how bad they are with giving webmasters feedback on their sites, but perhaps I could at least get a "manual action/ no manual action" type of response?
So, anyone knows a way?
Thanks!

Juniya

9:34 pm on Sep 30, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Interestingly enough, I think a couple of my web sites have also suddenly lost 99% of all Bing traffic I think since last week some time.

I have yet to dive into what happened but I didn't recieve any messages either.

And then Bing wonders why they will always be behind Google? Things like these, they don't tell the webmaster, what happened for the sudden change to take place lol smh...

I am also looking for the same form from bing if possible. I hope they don't make us call them or something, you never know with Bing.

tangor

10:37 pm on Sep 30, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Have you checked the others in your niche? Just to make sure the whole sheebang has not been whacked?

(Don't laugh, G does this all the time, too)

This might be the start of Bing playing catch up to Penguin and Panda.

Juniya

7:43 am on Oct 1, 2015 (gmt 0)

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@Tangor -- Good thinking! I think you might have a point. My sites that got whacked by Bing are all 'celebrity news/pictures' related(All of them are at least 6+ years old though and updated at least 3 times a week).

I have already left that 'dying' industry but maybe that could be a reason.

webcentric

4:50 pm on Oct 27, 2015 (gmt 0)

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I've also notice a significant drop in Bing traffic and pages once well ranked have all but disappeared. Appears that my sitemap hasn't been crawled since April (just resubmitted it so we'll see if that has any impact). Searches that should bring up pages with a national scope, now only return state-scoped pages (I should say page as only my Arizona page seems to have any traction at all). It's very puzzling.

SEOPTI

3:03 am on Dec 2, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Webcentric sitemaps don't have an impact if they crawled your site "before" you submitted a sitemap in WMT. They crawled my sites with zillions of URLs completely before submitting a sitemap.

Check your crawl settings in WMT and make sure they are at maximum. Also check your server response time. Get in touch with Bing support, they reply within 48 hours and they will tell you if there are any technical issues with your site.

fathom

4:27 am on Dec 2, 2015 (gmt 0)

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Did a search and found [onlinehelp.microsoft.com...] [about half way down the page]

You find:

[bing.com...]

But then, it seems like they forgot the original question.

nakkers

5:17 am on Dec 2, 2015 (gmt 0)



I've noticed changes as well, I think it's an algo update.