Two Months Running an AI-API Reference Site Solo: Google Punished the Launch, Bing Didn't Care

说明与用途

在两个月后，Google 删除了大部分内容，只保留了三页骨架页面，而 Bing 继续索引新内容并计数反向链接。作者保持每日发布，聚焦骨架页面，并使用带有 canonical URL 的交叉发布来维持可见性。

问题

Maintaining visibility for a new AI‑API reference site after Google removed most content from the index while Bing continued to index and credit backlinks.

结果

After two months, the site lost most of its Google visibility but retained Bing indexing and backlink credit. The strategy of publishing daily, focusing on skeleton pages, and leveraging cross‑posting for backlinks keeps the site alive and growing traffic.

工作流

• Publish 42 posts in a burst to give crawlers content; maintain daily publishing floor; focus backlink strategy on skeleton pages (homepage and hubs) rather than deep articles; monitor Google Search Console for index status; cross‑post to dev.to with canonical pointing back to original; keep content dated and verified with hard numbers; translate Chinese‑media announcements within 6–48 hours to capture early pricing changes.

证据

The site got indexed fast — exactly one page: the DeepSeek hub. Not the homepage, not any article. One navigation page.

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Sometime around September 18, impressions went to zero and the hub dropped out of the index. No manual action, no message in Search Console, just silence.

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On September 29 I cross-posted a cost-math piece to dev.to with the canonical pointing back to my original. Bing indexed the copy the same day and counted the backlinks.

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Three rules doing the heavy lifting: Narrow verification, Chinese‑media translation gap, dated caveats everywhere.

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