Did Bing de-list the wordpress.com domain?
-
I have my blog set up with Google, Yandex, and Bing and visit the consoles for each about once a month. While Bing has never been a huge source of traffic, adding up to less than 1% of Google traffic, my site still appears in 50-100 searches and generate maybe 3-7 clicks a day them. It has been steady for a long time.
When I checked last week I noticed that my site fell off a cliff around June 8th for Bing, appearing in no searches and generating no traffic. But everything looked good in the Bing Webmaster Tools console.
I went to Bing to search for my blog and found nothing, save for non-WP.com sites that link to my site. I searched for my other blog and then a few blogs I frequent and they too no longer appear.
Finally, I searched on just wordpress.com and that too generated no results related to that domain; wordpress.org, yes, wordpress.com, no.
I am not exactly in tears about Bing (and DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing for its reults) no longer listing me, but I am curious as to what might have happened.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
-
Hi @zouve, sorry to hear you’re not showing up in Bing results as well. I’m not sure what could have gone wrong there. If your webmaster tools look fine and aren’t reporting any errors, there isn’t much we can work with.
As for searching “wordpress.com” in Bing, that will bring up sites that talk about WordPress.com, but unless a blogger that uses a .wordpress.com subdomain is talking about WordPress.com a lot, I can’t imagine that would show up well in the results.
I can confirm, for what it’s worth, that my own blog’s articles that are well ranked seem to show up just fine in Bing, so it shouldn’t be anything related to code changes here. And I’d imagine if .wordpress.com as a whole was blocked, we’d be hearing a lot more about it.
So in my opinion, if it’s not just a random coincidence (more likely if you’re going from a few hits per week to zero) you’ll want to check out what changes you made or things you tried around that time: what articles were published? Did you try any SEO or other traffic-generating tricks? Were there any issues with sites that link back to you? Etc. Hopefully, that will help you spot where to look next.
-
I invite you to compare the results between Google and Bing when doing a search on the term ‘wordpress.com’ if you believe your assertion that the term should not bring up your company’s site.
-
Much like we can’t affect Google search results, we can’t control Bing either. So it’s up to them whether to index WordPress.com or not.
Looking at Bing’s support documentation about search results to see if we’re indexed or blocked, there’s no block on WordPress.com:
Again, we can’t control where Bing offers our site on their search results, but as my testing indicated, we are indexed, just not offered as a result.
- The topic ‘Did Bing de-list the wordpress.com domain?’ is closed to new replies.
WordPress.com Forums 