Getting indexed in Bing/Yahoo.

[StackCash]

Hey guys,

I've had my site up for about 2+ weeks now. About 10+ pages of my site have been indexed by Google, but nothing is being picked up by Yahoo or Bing. I know that I can just submit the site to those engines, but I think I read somewhere that this may hurt my rankings. Is there any truth to that? Should I just build back links consistently and wait for them to find the site naturally?

 

[djbaxter]

It's doubtful it will hurt you. It's more that it's unnecessary and I don't think there's ever been any evidence that's it speeds up the process.

Do you see Bingbot in your log stats as visiting the site? Have you set up a Bing Webmaster Tools account? Bing Webmaster Tools

Also, two or three weeks is not very long at all in search engine time.

 

[StackCash]

I've been keeping an eye out for various spiders/crawlers. Haven't seen Bing yet. I'm setting up webmaster tools as we speak. Thanks Minstrel.

 

[djbaxter]

Submit a sitemap to Bing too.

 

[Bruce61]

Hi forum people,

Wow, that is a very good question. When I started in seo five years ago, I found my site would automatically move up in yahoo but it took much more time to rank in Google. After reading this post I checked my site (which is half way up page one in Google) and it doesnt appear in the first three pages of Yahoo. Similarly I am eerily absent from bing.

Now while Google has the vast market share of searches, this is a little annoying. if i dont get a yahoo or bing webmasters tools account will I be penalized - or should I say how much will it help with the rankings?

All I can think of is that Google is much better at indexing sites earlier than the other two (which kills off the idea of google sandbox for new sites)