Bing is aggressively ignoring our website; their spider has only been there once and only indexed 2 pages. I've got a login with Bing and the suggestions there have been useless.
1. no .htaccess leading to error 301; I do have the .htaccess file; but, the only 301 I have seen is this month & it coincides with Bing's visit.
2. place the title right after head and before meta, etc.

Important details:
www.mortarandpetals.com
VSD - up to date, registered
Windows XP

Is there something that I should put into .htaccess?

We are not having any trouble with the other search engines.

Thanks for any guidance

Mortar

Hello Mortar,

Visual Site Designer places the title tag after the meta elements and a few comments, but this shouldn't cause the search engine to ignore your site completely.

I looked at the underlying code and at first, I thought the problem might be the Flash menu you're using for navigation. But, further down the page, I saw that you linked normal images, which the spiders should have been able to see and follow to your other pages.

An HTTP 301 error results from a redirect. I'd contact your hosting provider to see if they can look at the logs and see what caused the error this month. Take a look at http://www.checkupdown.com/status/E301.html for technical explanation.

Hi Cesar,

I found the problem...Bing wants to see a robot.xml not just robot.txt, that google is happy with.

Thanks!

Mortar
www.mortarandpetals.com

At least there are no more 301 errors. However, they have only indexed 3 pages. I have to find some other way to get their attention.

Mortar
www.mortarandpetals.com