Bing Jail – Dariusz Więckiewicz ????????

My private web site has been lately penalized by Bing, or for those who desire completely different naming for it – secretly blacklisted or shadowbanned. Don’t know precisely why however by the tip of January 2023 I misplaced each listed web page that had been in Bing.

Why do I even trouble, I requested, once I observed that development in February, so I left it for time being.

I don’t use Bing, I don’t like Bing, nonetheless, I exploit another search engines like google and yahoo that depend on Bing like DuckDuckGo Search.

Due to that, once you use the search on my web site, if the end result weren’t as anticipated I urged a hyperlink to go looking it by DuckDuckGo. Till the difficulty is sorted I’ve been compelled to alter it again to Google.

Firstly, don’t trouble contacting Bing Help. This assist is solely non-existent. No person will reply to your emails, and no one will care until you might be heavy paying buyer.

Hey Bing Crew. If you wish to observe up, my most up-to-date request is ‌REQ00056361.

There may be loads of discussion board posts with comparable experiences just like the recent one through which I made a decision to take part.

After I don’t care an excessive amount of about Bing Search I’m indignant due to my lack of web site presence on DuckDuckGo.

I began studying varied issues, and sure, I went by Bing Webmaster Tips. If you already know my web site a bit extra you might even see that’s completely optimised and all necessities have been met in order that wasn’t the difficulty.

Simply been pondering that the content material of my web site is what any individual in Microsoft disliked and determined to ban me behind the scene with out acknowledging it.

It seems to be like Microsoft is doing a little shady secret blacklisting which, if occurs to some firm with a finances to spare, would end in a lawsuit. With a distinct segment web site like mine, they’ll sleep with out worrying and the assist can maintain ignoring me.

I received some articles about Microsoft and Home windows however all are legit and none of them pertains to piracy. So why?

The query is Why have I been pondering that any individual there doesn’t like what I’m writing and secretly blacklist my web site? It’s as a result of none of my different web sites has been affected.

All different web sites have been constructed with the identical webmaster and search engine optimisation practices and strategies, the one distinction was content material, so sure, I’m pondering that Bing and Microsoft itself doing a little shady job behind scenes and discriminating web sites by their search engines like google and yahoo.

I’d be very blissful to have an open dialogue on the explanations, however once you don’t know the true causes behind it and also you don’t have anyone to contact/converse with, that’s simply making you indignant a bit extra.

I made a decision to ask the Bing Chat bot “Why my web site just isn’t listed in Bing?” and here’s what I get.

“Your web site is new and Bing hasn’t found and crawled it but. With new web sites, it may possibly take Bing time to seek out hyperlinks and crawl by to your web site.”

No, that’s not the case.

“Bing is operating into points crawling the positioning. If Bing persistently can not crawl your web site, it might not choose it to be listed.”

No crawling points have been reported, nada.

“No hyperlinks are pointing to your web site. A typical downside for brand spanking new web sites is the dearth of hyperlinks pointing to them from different locations on the internet. Such hyperlinks assist Bing uncover your content material and inform us in regards to the reputation of your internet pages.”

Google know what number of hyperlinks are there and the way in style the web site is. When importing my web site into Bing Webmaster Instruments I used direct import from Google Search Console therefore that shall verify the factor that certainly there are hyperlinks and a few are fairly in style.

“You may examine if any of those points apply to your web site and take applicable actions to resolve them. You can too use Bing Webmaster Instruments to get extra insights into why your web site just isn’t being listed.”

It is going to be good if I’ll see any points. The textual content “use Bing Webmaster Instruments to get extra insights into why your web site just isn’t being listed” simply angers me much more. What insights!?

I’m not alone, there’s loads of customers reporting the identical issues with none assist from Microsoft and the Bing workforce.

You could ask what points are reported when making an attempt to do URL Inspection from Webmaster Instruments. The knowledge could be very imprecise.

And that’s by Bing Index the place Dwell URL doesn’t see something incorrect.

I, in fact, clicked the Request indexing button, the identical as I’m doing when I’m publishing any new content material.

I even eliminated my web site from Webmaster Instruments and re-added it again once more, on twenty first April, however for the impact on that, I might want to wait (if there will probably be any).

An attention-grabbing truth is that my web site is admittedly in a subdomain (dariusz.) of my important area (wieckiewicz.org), similar to my daughter (anna.) whose web site was not penalized by Bing.

After I began messing with Webmaster Instruments by eradicating my web site and re-adding it once more, I reminded myself that a few years in the past Google are inclined to recommend including to their Search Console any domains and variations that we received management of. So on twenty second April 2023, I added the principle area (wieckiewicz.org) as nicely. By this, I added sitemaps to my web site (within the subdomain) and my daughter’s to see if something will change. It is going to be nonsense if I’ll however let’s strive.

On the stage once I added the area and verified possession by the CNAME DNS setting on the homepage of Bing Webmaster Instruments I observed a chart for Search Efficiency. As this (in principle) is a newly added web site there isn’t any graph exhibiting, nonetheless, there have been some figures on prime of it that is unnecessary and I began pondering.

The headings of the flat graph confirmed Listed pages on the worth of 1.8K. That’s a bit nonsense, as firstly, there isn’t any web site on my important area and my daughter received solely 123 pages. This begins wanting just like the figures from my web site. When began taking part in with the date vary change observed that these figures are most definitely for listed pages that have been months in the past, therefore not very correct.

I made a decision to attend a few days to see if the graph will replace and if something modified.

If actually, one thing modified in Bing necessities round January (we find out about their core replace in mid-Jan.), it might be good if their Webmaster pointers would at the very least point out this in some way.

I maintain investigating others’ experiences in that matter, like Dave, who shared a few posts about this situation.

Dave took some steps to assist him again on monitor with Bing, which I additionally adopted earlier than I even found his web site.

He solved his situation. I made a decision to observe his lead and complain publically and weblog about it as nicely, therefore this textual content right here.

I discovered new terminology in the present day, which was “splog”. One way or the other Bing robots most definitely classed my web site like that which suggests “Spam Weblog”. Whole nonsense!

Significantly, I’d recognize it if any individual at Bing would undergo my web site and clarify to me how I’m referred to as a Spam Weblog.

Aside from sending a most up-to-date request (REQ00056361) to Bing Webmaster Help Crew, there’s nothing that I can do about it.

Dave talked about some crawling points and search engine optimisation errors reported and I made a decision to take a look at mines as nicely. I run a full Web site Scan from beneath search engine optimisation menu to see what it will deliver.

What it brings was nothing to do with being classed as “splog”, however nonetheless determined to undergo them.

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Analysing Web site Scan outcomes

• Whole pages scanned: 2.6K
• Errors: 11
• Warnings: 277

ERROR: Blocked by robots.txt

I deliberately added one block rule to my robots.txt file to stop indexing hyperlinks to my obtain information so individuals will get them by posts on my web site and can perceive extra what’s for than blindly downloading it from a search engine not realizing the context behind it.

There may be nothing to repair right here, Bing might imagine in a different way but it surely’s all intentional.

ERROR: Meta Description tag lacking

Simply two pages right here with lacking meta descriptions. There could also be extra, however concentrating on these two is a straightforward repair which I did right away.

WARNING: Title too lengthy

No just isn’t!

My titles, if they’re lengthy, are descriptive sufficient and in some languages they should be, as in different instances they are going to simply sound like clickbait titles.

I don’t get why Bing nonetheless follows this outdated suggestion for a title size of 70 characters. That is whole nonsense. Google and its guys confirmed during the last months that there isn’t any restrict for them for titles. If the titles are too lengthy to show on a specified system they are going to merely truncate them to suit.

So… Bing… truncate the titles and STOP with this nonsense suggestion!

Nothing to repair right here.

WARNING: Meta Description too lengthy or too quick

239 pages. I get it, this may be mounted. It requires some work however may be performed.

Off beam any warnings associated to an precise web page I’ll look to repair them (add meta description), however a suggestion to repair the meta description for a specified /tag/ is a bit extreme so significantly Bing?

Fortunately to the templating in Hugo I’ve been ready so as to add meta descriptions to all tags with minimal work from myself.

WARNING: HTML measurement is just too lengthy

“Evaluated measurement of HTML is estimated to be over 125 KB and dangers not being totally cached. Serps could not totally purchase the content material on a web page if the web page accommodates a whole lot of code. Extraneous code can push the content material down within the web page supply making it tougher for a search engine crawler to get to it. A mushy restrict of 125 KB is used for steering to make sure all content material & hyperlinks can be found within the web page supply to be cached by the crawler. Which means that if the web page measurement is just too large, a search engine could not be capable of get the entire content material or could find yourself not totally caching it.”

Okay, that is one thing that caught my consideration.

As Hugo is used to generate my web site, I’m not utilizing any in depth additions so the pages shall be gentle and quick. The truth that the web site reveals above 125kB requires me to look a bit of bit deeper.

After a brief investigation, the highlighted posts have loads of photos and due to that the <image> tags included within the code, which include a reference to numerous sizes of the picture within the WebP format, trigger the pure HTML file to weight a bit greater than Bing mushy restrict.

Not one of the different search engines like google and yahoo complained about that and the code is served by Netlify CDN therefore I made a decision, weighing the professionals and cons, to depart it unchanged.

Bing, you have to take care of it that that is how it will likely be.

WARNING: Meta robots tag accommodates restrictive robots directives

Sure, deliberately, neglect about it and transfer alongside. Only a warning that shall not be thought-about an issue and positively shall not forestall the positioning from indexing.

WARNING: Meta Refresh tag exists

Sure, as soon as once more, it’s intentional, neglect about it and transfer alongside.

NOTICE: H1 tag lacking

Nothing to repair right here. Bing reported points with information which can be simply meta redirects (aliases) to different pages. All different pages on my web site are following this most elementary search engine optimisation precept.

Now I’ll go away it and see if over the subsequent weeks, months, or by no means, it should change. I’m not anticipating anyone from Bing to contact me, but when that occurs and I’ll get any optimistic output will replace this submit.