Bing Webmaster Tools Sitemaps Utility Broke

[keyplyr]

Looked at Bing Webmaster Tools and saw my sitemap "pending" (last submitted a year ago.) A week later still "pending." This has previously shown as "successful."

This is the same example.com/sitemap.xml I've used for 18 years, at the same location, no changes. This document gets a server response 200 OK when I load it into Fetch as Bingbot. All browsers connect as well.

Resubmitted a few days ago... still "pending" (with the new submission date.) Must be something wrong with the utility.

[lucy24]

I just went over to check. For me they're claiming "Last Crawl 4/10/2016" with status "Failed". Helloo? This is the same Bing that requests robots.txt several times a day, and has a long list of current requests for pages that were redirected more than five years ago, and we're supposed to believe they haven't tried again in a month?

Further detour to raw logs confirms that they are lying in their teeth, as I find four successful fetches of sitemap.xml (variously 304 or 200) from 10 April until the present.

Lesson: Bing's wmt is approximately as reliable as Google's. File under: Dog Bites Man.

[keyplyr]

or even "flea bites dog"