Bing Bunged Bobby's Blog

Has this ever happened to you? You check your private messages and emails and have one that says: Your site doesn’t show up on Bing! “Hmmm… that can’t be true”, you think to yourself, but when you check… It is, in fact, true. You’ve been de-Bing’d! Oh, the shame… Well, folks, don’t dispair. I’ve been where you are. In fact, I am where you are, or have been, now! My little footprint on the web has been paved over and erased from Bing (and consequently DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Qwant, Yahoo, and a bunch of other metacrawlers that use Bing). Why I’m not a developer, so I cannot get deep into diagnosing this issue. Here is what I came up with in order of probability: I did something to my site that is preventing it from being indexed. I wrote something on my site that violates Bing’s rules. I linked to something on my site that violates Bing’s rules. Something else? Did I break it? Since I am not a web developer at all, I tend to fiddle around and test things out quite a bit. Don’t be thinking…