Connecting or Verifying your site with Bing Webmaster Tools.

Apr11

What is Bing Webmaster Tools?

‘Bing Webmaster Tools’ is a free service for webmasters to add their website to ‘Bing Index crawling’ by ‘Bing Search Engines’. This helps the webmasters to optimize their websites properly with Bing search engines. Bing Search Engine is a product of Microsoft.

How to Connect a ‘WordPress blog or site’ with Bing Webmaster tools?

  • Login to the Bing account with your registerd email and password at http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster.
  • In the Menus, Find ‘My Sites’ and add your site URL (Homepage URL) in the text box Provided. Give all the basic information and sitemap URL. Click Save.

Add a site to Bing webmaster

  • You will get redirected to a page where you can see the different type of verification for the site ownership. You can select any method to verify the ownership. But here I am taking the 2nd method.
  • Copy the <Meta> code displayed in the text box.

Metacode for wordpress blog

  • Login to your WordPress admin panel.
  • From the Left side Menus, find “Tools->Available Tools “and click on that menu links.

Wordpress tools Menu

  • You will reach to a page, where you can see “Website Verification Services” with different webmaster types. Find “Bing Webmaster Center”.
  • Paste the copied <Meta> code into the text box provided near to “Bing Webmaster Center” and click on the button ‘Save Changes’.

Paste Bing master meta code to WordPress

  • Come back to “Bing Webmaster’ and click on “Verify” button.

Verify WordPress blog ownership

  • In the ‘Bing Webmaster’, find the menu “Diagnostics & Tools -> Fetch as Bingbot” and click.

Fetch as Bing bot

  • You will get a page to submit your URL. Submit your URL and click on “FETCH” button.

Give to Fetch Bing bot

  • You will get status ‘Completed’ with ‘OK’ and some details.

Bing bot Fetch Completed

  • Now you can give each post URL separately to “FETCH” by Bingbot.

fetch by Bing bot

How to connect a ‘Blogger’ with Bing Webmaster tools?

  • Click on “Add a Site” under “My Sites” Menu in the Bing Webmaster.

Add site to Bing webmaster

  • Paste the “Blogger URL” and sitemap URL.
  • Click on “Add” button.

Add Blogger URL

  • Copy the <Meta> tag code from the “Verify ownership” page.

Verify Bing master Ownership

  • Come to blogger; and click on menu “Themes”

Edit Blogger HTML

  • Click on “EditHTML” and paste the copied <Meta> code into the head section of the HTML.

Paste Bing webmaster meta code in blogger html

  • Click on “Save Theme” and come back to “Bing Webmaster”.
  • Click “verify”.

Verify meta code for blogger

  • You can see your blogger URL is added to the webmaster.

Bing Webmaster

  • Now give the Blogger URL to fetch with “Bingbot” by clicking on the menu “Diagnostics & Tools -> Fetch as Bingbot”

Bingbot fetch

  • Give each post URL to fetch by “Bingbot”.

 

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