😲 Surprise! You're Not Indexed

Prior to HCU one of my sites was bringing in $6K a month. Aged domain that cost around $2K. It was a great site in terms of ROI.

HCU didn’t hit it as bad as other sites, but traffic went from over 100K monthly to around 35K monthly.

I publish a post and it immediately ranks #1 in Bing. Until yesterday.

Why?

This site is on Ezoic. It’s making a little over $300 a month. Yesterday it made less than $4.

This is what clued me in that something was up. So I popped over to Clicky and saw this -

Search traffic was down 72% yesterday. Without even looking I knew that the site had been de-indexed in Bing.

I’ve had this exact problem with other sites in the past.

And without fail, when I’ve contacted Bing Webmaster Tools support they tell me, “we don’t know why this happened but we’ll fix it.”

Why don’t they know?

Usually the site gets re-indexed the next day after I hear back from them.

So, I’ve just sent them a new support request for this domain. Hopefully I will see the same outcome.

Though I do hope it doesn’t take two months to get a response like it did last time.

So, if you’ve got sites still surviving on Bing, know that this can happen. I think it’s happened to me four or five different times now.

Coming up…

More on what I’m working on and how it’s going.

Stay awesome,

Shawna

P.S. If you’re looking for high level discussions or tips on things like local SEO and Rank & Rent, I highly recommend Jacky Chou’s Advise community. I’ve been in it for over a year now (I think?) and there’s tons of value in it, including a SOP for local SEO.

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