what is bing webmaster tools

RN August 07, 2023

what is bing webmaster tools

Hello friends, Are you a blogger or content writer, or do you have a blogging website? So you must know the Google Search Console tool, which was earlier known as Google Webmaster.

By the way, Google is a search engine on which people find information by searching for themselves. But is Google only a search engine? So no, there are many such search engines that work like Google.

Any blogger ranks his new article written only on Google. In which he brings his articles to Google using the Google search console tool.

But just as Google is a search engine, similarly, Microsoft also has its own search engine named Bing. Friends Bing is also a famous search engine that is used in many countries.

Internet Explorer is to the Bing search engine in the same way that Google is to the Chrome browser. Which is also the most used search engine and browser after Google.

So just as you use Google Search Console to rank your articles in Google, there is a Bing Webmaster Tool for Bing. Many bloggers and SEO specialists recommend using Bing along with Google.

Bing Webmaster is also similar to Google Console, but slightly different. In today's article, we are going to see what is bing webmaster tools? How to use it and how to rank your website on Bing

what is bing webmaster tools? understood, but now it is your turn to learn how to use it, i.e., how to submit a site to bing.

how to submit site to bing

Friends, it is very easy to submit a website to the Bing webmaster tool. You can submit a website in the same way we submit it in the search console, but there is another easy way too.

First of all, open Bing Webmaster.
If you have already installed your website in Google Console, then all you have to do is import it from there.
You will have to sign in to Bing Webmaster from Google, but keep in mind that you log in with the same Google email on which you have your search console.
After signing in, two options will be presented to you, of which you have to choose “Import your sites from GSC”. Is
Now you have to click on the Import button.
Again, you may need to select the Google account you've set up the website for in Search Console.
Now select your website, click "Continue,” and wait for a while.
Now you must have received the message of Congratulations, that is, your website has been added to Bing Webmaster.

Come on, now you have learned how to submit site to bing. Now let's get to know the rest of the options and tools.

bing webmaster tools

Search performance
URL inspection
Site Explorer
Sitemaps
URL submission
SEO
configuration
Tools and enhancements
Security and privacy

search performance

The name Search Performance itself suggests that it will tell you the performance of your website. On this page, you will get all the information about the pages of your website as found in Search Console.

At this place, you will also get information in graphical form, including numbers.

Here are the numbers: how many clicks you got, how many impressions, i.e., how many times your website appeared in Bing search, CTR [click through rate], average position, crawl request, and indexed pages.

Otherwise, it will show you which keywords your website's posts are ranking for. Here, you can also see your top pages.

URL inspection

This tool is most important because, with it, you tell the search engine to rank your page.

The way Google Search Console also has this inspection tool, it is also there in Bing, which you can use.

To use it, you just have to copy the URL of your page or post, enter it in the URL inspection page, and click on the inspect button.

Site Explorer

Site Explorer is somewhat similar to the search performance in Bing Webmaster, which shows you information about your site. Along with the search information, you get some other information as well.

You will get crawl information, i.e., how many URLs were indexed and how many were not. There is no error. And folder information means how many total URLs are there in your site, how many clicks were done in it, how many impressions came in, and how many backlinks you got. Not only this, but there are other options that you can see.

Sitemaps

This tool is available to all webmasters and explains all the urls of your website and also brings them to the search engine.

Your website has a page for sitemaps that records all your urls on the sitemap.xml page.

You can submit a sitemap by clicking on Sitemap in Bing Webmaster.

URL submission

Friends, this is a different tool that is most important to Bing webmasters. URLs are indexed by inspecting them in the search console, but here in Bing, each URL is indexed by submitting it to the URL submission tool.

The way we submit the sitemap is also done in the same way.

You have to copy the URL of the page you want to index, and after that, you have to submit it by coming to the URL submission page.

SEO

Everyone must know SEO. This is a new and different tool in Bing that gives you information about the SEO of your website.

In this, you get backlinks, keyword research, SEO reports, and site scanning.

Site Scan This is a great option in which you scan your website, and Bing gives you reports of any errors or warnings.

configuration

This is also a good tool with which you can control the crawl of your website, and if you do not want to rank any page, you can noindex it.

If there is a post or page on your website that you do not want to appear in a Bing search, then you can use block URLs.