Bing Webmaster Tools (previously the ''Bing Webmaster Center'') is a free service as part of
Microsoft
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Bing
Bing most often refers to:
* Bing Crosby (1903–1977), American singer
* Microsoft Bing, a web search engine
Bing may also refer to:
Food and drink
* Bing (bread), a Chinese flatbread
* Bing (soft drink), a UK brand
* Bing cherry, a varie ...
search engine
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which allows
webmasters to add their websites to the
Bing
Bing most often refers to:
* Bing Crosby (1903–1977), American singer
* Microsoft Bing, a web search engine
Bing may also refer to:
Food and drink
* Bing (bread), a Chinese flatbread
* Bing (soft drink), a UK brand
* Bing cherry, a varie ...
index crawler, see their site's performance in Bing (clicks, impressions) and a lot more. The service also offers tools for webmasters to troubleshoot the crawling and
indexing of their website, submission of new URLs,
Sitemap
A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site within a domain.
There are three primary kinds of sitemap:
* Sitemaps used during the planning of a website by its designers
* Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site
* ...
creation, submission and ping tools, website statistics, consolidation of content submission, and new content and community resources.
Features
Bing Webmaster Tools provides many features that can be accessed by webmasters after they verify the ownership of their websites using methods such as MetaTag verification, adding
CNAME record to DNS entry, XML verification and
Domain Connect.
It contains the following tools and features to support webmasters to access data and manage their websites on Bing:
*Submit Urls allows webmasters to submit thousands of URLs present in their website for faster indexing. The number of URLs they can submit can be as much as 10,000 URLs per day.
*Crawl issues allows webmasters to discover potential issues with their websites such as
File Not Found (404) errors, blocked by REP, long dynamic URLs, and unsupported content-types.
*Backlink data allows webmasters to access data about their referring links. Part of this feature was acquired from
Yahoo! Site Explorer Yahoo! Site Explorer (YSE) was a Yahoo! service which allowed users to view information on websites in Yahoo!'s search index. The service was closed on November 21, 2011, and merged with Bing Webmaster Tools, a tool similar to Google Search Console ...
.
*Advanced filtering allows webmasters to quickly scope the results in their website reports to zoom into the data they need.
*Data download allows webmasters to access the first 1000 results in a
CSV file to analyze the results.
*Keyword search tool allows webmasters to explore new keywords.
*Robots.txt validator allows webmasters to check if their
robots.txt
robots.txt is the filename used for implementing the Robots Exclusion Protocol, a standard used by websites to indicate to visiting web crawlers and other web robots which portions of the website they are allowed to visit.
The standard, dev ...
file meets the standard.
*Markup validator allows webmasters to check if their site meets
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web. Founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations that maintain full-time staff working together in ...
standards.
*Sitemaps allows webmasters to check if Bing is viewing their sitemap correctly.
*Outbound links allows webmasters to see the outbound links Bing sees.
See also
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Windows Live
Windows Live is a discontinued brand name for a set of web services and software products developed by Microsoft as part of its software-as-a-service platform. Chief components under the brand name included web services (all of which were exposed ...
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Microsoft Bing
Microsoft Bing (also known simply as Bing) is a search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service traces its roots back to Microsoft's earlier search engines, including MSN Search, Windows Live Search, and Live Search. Bing offers a ...
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Google Search Console
Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is a web service by Google which allows webmasters to check indexing status, search queries, crawling errors and search engine optimization, optimize visibility of their websites.
Until 20 ...
References
Verify Your Site With Bing Webmaster Tools
Rankmath
External links
Bing Webmaster ToolsBingBing Webmaster Tools official blogBing Webmaster Center official forum
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