Bing Webmaster Tools

Microsoft launched Bing Toolbox which includes Bing Webmaster Center Tools, after the new search engine Bing was launched over a month ago.

As webmasters, you can submit your site’s sitemaps to Bing.com, validate your website’s robots.txt and view your web site’s statistics (Crawl issues, backlinks and outbound links) via Bing Webmaster Tools.

You can also monitor multiple sites via your Bing Webmaster Tools account, as long as you verify your site’s ownership by including the authentication code either as an HTML page or within your META tag.

Bing’s Toolbox site also offers you:

  • Bing’s whitepaper
  • The ability to submit a new website to Bing
  • The Bing API and PowerToys related to Bing’s API

Bing’s Webmaster Tools would prove to be more valuable to webmasters if:

  • Microsoft can ramp up Bing’s search market share
  • New features (geographic targeting and preferred domain) and more reports (e.g. top search queries) can be added to Bing’s Webmaster Tools

Google has been offering similar but more advanced tools to webmasters since 2006. The Google Webmaster Tools have been improved with more newly added features this year.

Comments

2 Responses to “Bing Webmaster Tools”

  1. Vichitra Singh on October 9th, 2009 1:41 pm

    The first impression you get when you go to Bing.com is that it is different – the background makes it cute but sure, there have been many other cases of search engines with tons of graphical frills to disguise their irrelevant search algorithms. However, when you type a search term, the results you get are a pleasant surprise because they are relevant.

  2. Alex on October 10th, 2009 11:05 am

    I’m using this service to monitor my website’s position – http://monitor.mazecore.com . They provide rank and uptime monitoring with alerts, but position monitoring on free account is enough for me. I recommend this service with free tariff for your website.

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