Bing is a web search engine which is designed and maintained by Microsoft. It is launched by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on 1 June 2009. It is written in ASP.NET. It’s available in 40 languages. It also provides videos, images, maps, and other services like Google. Bing homepage features an image and video that changes daily. The name Bing was memorable, short and easy to spell chosen through focus group and Microsoft and the name has similarity to the word “Bingo” which means something caught was found.
Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing webmaster tool is similar to the Google webmaster tools. It helps webmasters to add their websites. It is a free service that offers tools for webmasters to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of their website, sitemap, creation, submission, website stats, consolidation of content submission, new content and community resources.
It’s very easy to get started with Bing. The following are the steps that can be referred to get your website indexed in Bing.
- Search and select “Bing webmaster tool” in Google search box.
- Create a Microsoft account.
- Login into the Blogger.
- Copy the URL of your blog spot such as https://ayshaseo.blogspot.com/.
- Paste it in “My site” box.
- Click on Add button.
- If no sitemap has been generated yet for your website just add a sitemap. After entering your site address add “/sitemap.xml”.And click on Add-on button.
- Choose meta tag verification for easy verification.
- Copy the Meta tag and paste it in theme Blogger and also paste in above closing of head tag.
- Click Verify.
- Go to the dashboard and select “diagnostics and tools” and click on “fetch as bingbot”
- Enter the URL to your website in the given box and give to fetch.
Hence we can add our blog to Bing webmaster tools and each of our posts can be crawled and indexed.
Aysha Fahad SEO Analyst 