Blogger Guide For Bing Web Masters Tool For SEO

How to Optimize a Bing ???

 

When it comes to search engine optimization of a Website, we should make sure we optimize our site for all the search engines.

 

How to Submit your site to Bing Webmaster tools:

Once you are signed up and created your account, first step is to add your Website and verify.Once you have submitted your Website, you need to add details related to site and ownership like sitemap link, Website owner details and so on. If you have not created your blog sitemap yet, you can easily create using Google XML sitemap plugin and add your sitemap link in the Site info page.  After adding the site details click on Save and you will be redirected to Bing Webmaster tool dashboard, where you will see a message next to your site saying  ” Site ownership has not been verified, Verify now“. Click on Verify now and use any of the method to verify your site. I find the adding meta tag to be easiest one, but you can pick any of the three verification process.

 

Site Verified on

Now Bing needs to verify the ownership of your site. You need to verify your site using any one of the three option XML file verification, Meta tag verification and adding CNAME records. XML file verification is same as HTML file upload that we done for Google webmaster tools. Option 2 Meta tag verification is easy and simple. This article can guide you with Meta tag verification for Google, Bing . Once done click verify below.

 

Dashboard – Bing webmaster tools

Once verified you will be headed to Dashboard which shows your site activity (clicks from search, appeared in search, pages crawled, crawl errors and pages indexed), search keywords and links. Since your site is new to Bing webmaster tools you won’t see any data or reports at this time. Your webmaster navigation menu lies in left side.

Configure My Site – How to use Bing webmaster tools

Click Configure My Site where you can add and see sitemaps, submitted URLs, URL parameters, Crawls control and blocked URLs. You can configure your site more in detail using sub tabs.

 

Sitemaps

By submitting sitemaps you are helping Bing to know your site structure. It also helps all you site pages to easily index in Bing.

 

Submit URLs

If you want any of your pages or posts needs to be quickly indexed in Bing search results then you can use this feature. 

 

Diagnostics & Tools – How to use Bing webmaster tools

Here you will find some useful SEO tools for webmasters. Before optimizing your site keyword research is the first step to carry out and so do your keywords research here you can find some list of keyword research tools. Link explorer helps you to explore the number of backlinks pointing to that URL. If you want to see how your site appears for Bing search engine then enter the URL to fetch as Bingbot. If your site using structured data like Microformats and Schema.org then you can validate using Markup validator. Use SEO analyzer if you want SEO suggestions for any of your individual pages.

Hope this article helped you on how to use Bing webmaster tools for SEO. Please share and leave your comments below.

 Parvathy Naishad