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Bing Webmaster Tools Guide

I’ve already written about Google Webmaster Tools but how about Bing.

Google is focused on trying to display better quality results to searchers. But how does this help you?

What bloggers need is more better quality traffic to their sites.

You can get thousands of hits a day from Google but if your visitors don’t engage by leaving comments, connecting on social media and becoming subscribers, whats the use in it?

How will they then come back and buy your products or use your services?

Wouldn’t it make sense to work out how to get better quality traffic?

To achieve this you need to understand the basics of SEO and what better way to by using the tools and resources from one of the biggest search engine’s.

Google’s webmaster tools can take some time to work out how to use. On the other hand Bing’s are far easier to master therefore more effective for you to reap the benefits of.

If you can’t find the information you are searching for how can you use it effectively?

Bing Market Share

Now over 30% of U.S searches are completed using Bing so its not a bad idea to learn more about the tools they offer to webmasters.

Bing is also tipped to overtake Google in 2012

Bing market share

Create an Account

Creating an account so you can access the tools is easy.

If you already have a Live or Hotmail address, simply sign in to Webmaster tools using that email address.

Bing Webmaster Tools Sign in

Otherwise create an account using your own domains existing email address.

You’re not forced to use a Microsoft owned email address to use toolbox.

Easy To Find Resources

Don’t you wish Google’s solutions where easier to find?

Check out how easy it is to solve problems using Bing’s resources page.

Its one single page not unlike a sitemap or archives page making it very easy to find the answers you need fast.

Example: Deep Links

Here you can manage and change the links which appear underneath your top ranked result to expose more links to content inside your website.

Bing Bots Crawlers

You can view which search engine bots are crawling your site by installing a free plugin named wordfence.

The live traffic feature shows you when Bings search bots crawl the links on your site.

Bing also offers a Crawl Summary displaying how many pages they have crawled.

Pages Bing Crawled

404 Crawl Errors

There’s different types of crawl errors which will be listed here if you have any.

You’ll find Bing’s error reporting more accurate than Google’s

Crawl Errors

Google’s 404 page not found crawl errors tells a completely different story

Google Webmaster Tools 404 Page Not Found Crawl Errors

Based on using the broken link checker plugin, i think Bings data is far more accurate and up to date.

Check Incoming Links

Once you’ve setup your account and verified ownership of your domain you can check your links using Bing’s Link Explorer Tool.

  • Selecting the domain you want to see data for from your list of domains on the Home tab.
  • Select the Index tab.
  • To the left, in the navigational links, click on Inbound Links.

Incoming Links

Advanced Search

Want search results for one domain only?

Bing’s advanced search lists all url’s for any domain you want to dig deeper into.

Advanced Search

On the other hand you can also exclude a domain from the search results as well as search by country or region and find exactly what you are looking for.

Bing Maps Plugin

Bing Maps for WordPress allows you to create maps easily with a [bingMap] shortcode in your posts. You don’t have to worry about how the maps are displayed, the plugin takes care of that.

Grab an API key from https://www.bingmapsportal.com/ to start using the service.

Bing Map Example

Keyword Ranking & Traffic Stats

Here you can check all your keywords and see how they rank as well as how many clicks you get for each.

Keyword Search Traffic Stats

Keyword Research

Bing’s keyword research tool allows you to find out how many search queries there are using Bing’s organic search.

Bing Keyword Research Tool

If you want more traffic from Bing and aren’t getting enough from Google, why not check out Bing Webmaster Tools and make sure you’re getting what you should be getting.

XML SiteMap & Verification

Top get started, all you need to do is:

  1. Create an account
  2. Submit your xml sitemap
  3. Verify ownership of your domain

You can create an xml sitemap for WordPress using a plugin which you can also use to verify ownership of your website’s domain.

Another option is to install a free Seo plugin which includes a built in xml sitemap.

Who do you think offers better tools for webmasters, Bing or Google?

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Comments

  1. Harry says

    January 13, 2014 at 3:42 pm

    Thanks Brad for the information. How can be Bing Webmaster better than Google.

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  2. Dave says

    June 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

    Interesting to note that Bing gained another 7% of market share while Google lost 3%

    I also believe that people in general are steering away from Google,Facebook,Twitter.
    for more options that are available today.

    You get the sense that Google wants to control what you see by tracking everything you do.Imagine the cure for cancer is on Billy Bob’s website. But because he knows nothing about SEO,PR,etc we will never see it. Because the almighty Google decides that Billy Bob offers no relevant content. LOL

    Great Job Brad !

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    • Brad Dalton says

      June 8, 2012 at 2:22 pm

      Thanks for the comment Dave.

      It will be a great day when they are at 50/50 market share and both use different algorithms.

      The new Bing webmaster tools are really user friendly, accurate and easier to use than Google’s.

      I don’t like the way Google controls so much of the market and will continue to write content about Bing.

      If we all do this then Bing will catch up sooner rather than later.

      Cheers

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  3. Michael Yublosky says

    June 5, 2012 at 12:46 pm

    Thanks Brad for the useful information. Do you really think Bing is scheduled to overtake Google in 2012?

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    • Brad Dalton says

      June 5, 2012 at 1:14 pm

      Hi Michael.

      No i don’t but i do look forward to the day when its around 50/50

      But different algorithm

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    • Brad Dalton says

      June 8, 2012 at 2:26 pm

      Looks like Bing are getting closer now Michael. Up another 7% according to Dave!

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