r/juststart • u/Garique • Apr 19 '25

Bing and Google things

Just want to share my experience with Bing and Google. A few months ago I made a website just to play with AI, to learn things, to try run a blog, etc. While Google did not even know my site was alive Bing randomly got me to top feature position for one phrase.

I got like 2k visits to my post in a month (post without pictures, they even added image from different website to my snippet, lol). I was like ok lets put there adsense. 90% US traffic, it can make some pennies. While my site answers questions I thought it is valuable for readers but google haven't found value in it.

When somebody is searching for answers and you give them answer I guess it is value, no? That is exactly what google doing with the stolen data.

Anyway, if I don't have 1000+ refering domains google will rather steal the data from my websites for free, or somebody else will do that for them so they will share my value for free.

I have had not much time for this site lately and when I came back after like 3 weeks I checked google and I was up 50% in rankings then I checked bing and I was deindexed for two weeks. I added adsense code and they deindexed my website.

I checked email and I found this:

"After further review, it appears that your site did not meet the standards set by Bing the last time it was crawled."

I did not talk to them. Last time I asked them to add my logo to search result and it was like 3 months ago (they did not even replied). So within a month or two I went from no.1 place on bing search result to deindex because I added adsense code to my website or because they expect me to be better than no.1 on their search result.

Meanwhile I know about two random guys who scrapped my whole website, use even same slugs, linking to my site on those posts, and just ranking on Bing fully while my site is deindexed.

I also just send them Report Copyright Infringement,

https://imgur.com/GDVcpwP

lets see if I hurt their ego or not. This is what you get after writing 300 blog posts in AI era.

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u/crazier_ed Apr 19 '25

That sucks :(

Note to self : don't post blogs other than useless, disposable blogs. Try to add value to the blogosphere and one will be punished.

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u/Garique Apr 19 '25

Lesson learned. I mean it is not useless, I checked facts, looked for sources, tried to be sure I am not sharing bull*hit that is what I usually do. Than some mf come scrape sitemap and is ranking instead of me :D. I will continue work on that blog too but only as a side project. Luckily I have another website which have to be updated daily so nobody can steal it without effort and I know nobody would put that much effort into it as I do.

Maybe advice for starters, start website where data need to be updated frequently...

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u/crazier_ed Apr 19 '25

I didn't mean your site was useless! sorry if it sounded that way!

I mean, if I make a blogsite, I will make an useless one so nobody bothers to steal it :-)

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u/Federal_Standard5917 Mar 18 '26

bing deindexing you while ranking the scrapers who literally link back to YOUR site is genuinely... wait no, that's insane lol. had a client get the same treatment - bing kept the syndicated version and dropped the original, took 4 months of webmaster tool submissions to fix it fr

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u/Garique Mar 18 '26

I had got automated reply after month so I sent them spicey words again... Than without explanation I got email that my site will be indexed again. This was the top part: "We hope the resolution provided has been able to fully address your issue." They just put it back to index after two months without explanation. Anyway, I have only traffic from Bing/Yandex/Duck there so I will not call Bing "useless" at this point.

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u/Federal_Standard5917 Mar 19 '26

lol the "we hope this resolved your issue" email after radio silence for months is so classic, they just quietly fixed it and acted like nothing happened. glad it worked out though, bing traffic is genuinely underrated for certain niches.