Why Sign-Up for Bing (Live) Webmaster Tools?

Like the webmaster tools on Google and Yahoo it’s free. Bing may not bring you as many visitors as the other search engines but we still feel that it is worth spending 15 minutes setting up a Bing Webmaster Account.

Here is what we use Bing (Live) Webmaster Tools for:

• Submitting XML sitemaps to Bing Search (video sitemaps and html sitemaps)
• Checking website statistics
• Checking the strength of those pages
• Checking for crawl errors and crawl frequency
• A useful robots.txt validator

Setting Up Bing Webmaster Tools - Step-by-Step  Guide

1. Go to Bing Webmaster Tools and sign-in if you already have a Bing account, or follow the link to create a new Bing (Live) account.

2. In Webmaster Tools – click on the button that says “Add A Site”.

3. Click on the “Verify” link and follow the instructions on screen.  You can either choose to upload a specific HTML file to the root directory of your website or add a meta-tag to your home page.  Either example works well; but we tend to use the HTML file as you can use it again for any other website you manage through the same Bing account.

4. Once you have uploaded the relevant file then you can click on “Verify” and Bing will give you access to all the lovely data it has about your website.

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