How to recover a website deindexed by Bing search
About six months ago, someone told me that my technology site where I write articles about smartphone, electronics, and even AI, which used to be listed in Bing search results, was completely removed from Bing. I confirmed it by checking the stats of the website access in the Bing Webmaster Tools and searching using different keywords related to some of the popular articles on the website in Bing. The Bing webmater tools showed zero impression and clicks/visits.
I would like to share my experience of recovering the website that was removed from Bing search results.
Recover Website Removed By Bing
The Bing Webmaster Tools did not indicate this website was removed from Bing, despite the website impressions became zero. In the recommendations section in the Bing Webmaster Tools, it said that “Missing or undiscovered sitemap.” but I already specified the sitemap in the Bing Webmaster Tools and it was still accessible. I was very confused and did not know what I could do, so I submitted a support ticket to the Bing Webmaster Support Team. I did not get any response from Bing Webmaster Support Team for few days.
Yesterday, two weeks after I submitted the support ticket to the Bing Webmaster Support Team, I received an Email from the Bing Webmaster Support Team saying that they have resolved the issue related to my website. I checked the Bing Webmaster Tools and found that the website impression has been restored to normal and I could find this website in Bing search results again using the site: operator in search. Also all my pages which were indexed earlier ~370 were also re-indexed and started getting impressions and traffic/clicks.
I have attached the Email I received from the Bing Webmaster Support Team below for future reference.
Thank you for your patience!
I am happy to inform you that the issue related to your site has been resolved.
If your site is not crawled or indexed, it may take up to 2-3 weeks for your site to serve again. Additionally, you can submit your URL using IndexNow feature to get them recrawled faster.
Please review our Webmaster Guidelines, especially the section Things to Avoid, to avoid this in the future.
We hope the resolution provided has been able to fully address your issue. We will be closing this ticket. However, if you do have any follow up questions or concerns, please submit a feedback here.
Take care and stay safe!
Sincerely,
Bing Webmaster Support Team
The reply from the Bing Webmaster Support Team in the Email, however, was very generic and did not tell me why my website was removed from Bing search results in the first place. They also suggested that this website might be removed from Bing search results again in the future if I do not follow the Bing Webmaster Guidelines, especially the section Things to Avoid. I was still very confused after checking the Bing Webmaster Guidelines because I found this website is compliant with almost all the guidelines they created.
