Bing is not indexing my website pages

Hello,

I’m sorry to learn that Bing is not indexing your pages. I loaded the sitemap index, and it loads fine. However, I’m not sure about your robots.txt file, as it doesn’t meet our recommendation for best practice.

Yoast SEO, by default, uses the robots.txt file that WordPress creates dynamically. You or your server admin can override the dynamic file by adding a custom robots.txt file at the same server path.

Please note that the robots.txt file tells search engines what they can and cannot crawl on your site, meaning any mistake in the file could impact your site negatively. Before making changes, we highly recommend reading our?ultimate guide to robots.txt, which suggests using the default robots.txt content (below).

User-Agent: *
Disallow:?

Sitemap: https://www.whatiswhatis.com/sitemap_index.xml

When you’re ready to edit the file, Yoast SEO includes the ability to?create and edit the robots.txt?file for your site when your site meets the following requirements:

1. Enable file editing, which is the default option for most WordPress installs
2. Set server-level permissions to?allow writing to files, specifically the robots.txt file.

You can create or edit the robots.txt file in the WordPress admin under Yoast SEO > Tools > File editor. If you do not see the option to create or edit the file, WordPress has?disabled file editing, or your server doesn’t allow writing to the file. Your web host can help you enable these features if you want to use Yoast SEO to edit the robots.txt file. Alternatively, you can always?create or edit the file at the server level.

Furthermore, Bing reported that the request to fetch your sitemap timed out so you should resubmit it.

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by Maybellyne.

Hi @maybellyne

Thanks for your detailed information about my question.

I edited my robots.txt file and submitted it to Bing webmasters again.

Let’s see if the pages are indexed or not.

And I raised the ticket with bing support as well, after submitting the updated robots.txt and sitemap files.

This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic if you are still having issues with Bing.

Please read this post before opening a new request.