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SEO on BING

Posted on by Alix Chaparro

Bing is an online search engine owned by Microsoft. It is one of the most popular search engines along with Google and Yahoo. 

Bingbot is the web crawler used by Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. 

This crawler robot crawls web pages on the internet to index their content and provide it in Bing search results. 

How to enable Bingbot crawling?

Like other search bots, Bingbot follows links from page to page to discover and index new web pages.

If you want to allow Bingbot access to your website through the robots.txt file, you can add the following lines to the file:

User-agent: Bingbot

Disallow:

This tells Bingbot that it can crawl and index all pages on your website without restrictions. Using “Disallow:” with no value after it indicates full permission to crawl all parts of your website.

Make sure that these lines are located at the top of the robots.txt file and that there are no “Disallow” rules blocking Bingbot access to specific parts of your website.

Search results from Bing: 

  • Organic Results
  • Ad Results
  • Image Results
  • Video Results
  • News Results
  • Map Results

Where to track Seo on Bing? 

Bing Webmaster Tools performs a similar function but in the context of Bing, Microsoft’s search engine.

Bing Webmaster Tools offers tools and features that allow website owners to monitor and manage the presence of their sites in Bing search results.

This includes the ability to submit and verify sitemaps, perform SEO audits, view traffic data, get alerts on crawl and indexing issues, and more. 

How to link my website in Bing Webmaster Tools?

Access Bing Webmaster Tools:

Add your Web Site:

  • After signing in, click “Add a site” at the top right of the page.
  • Enter your website URL in the field provided and click “Add”.

Verify Site Ownership:

Once you have added your website, Bing Webmaster Tools will ask you to verify that you are the owner of the site.

Choose one of the available verification methods, such as adding a meta tag to the site, uploading an XML file to the site’s server, or verifying through the domain provider.

Follow the instructions provided to complete the verification process.

Confirm Verification:

After completing the verification process, return to Bing Webmaster Tools and click “Verify” or “Confirm” to confirm that you have completed the verification successfully.

How do I import my website from search Console to bing webmaster tools?

Log in to Bing Webmaster Tools, add your website and verify your site ownership, in this step you will do the following: 

Instead of selecting the usual verification option, look for the option to import data from Google Search Console.

You will be prompted to sign in to your Google account and grant Bing permission to access your Google Search Console data.

Select the Site to Import:

Once you are logged into your Google account, you will be shown a list of your websites in Google Search Console.

Select the website you want to import to Bing Webmaster Tools.

Complete the Import:

Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the import process. You may be asked to confirm the import and grant additional permissions.

Just like Google Seo you have to perform 

Quality Content: Create relevant and well-written content.

Keywords: Use relevant keywords in your content.

Quality Links: Build links from relevant websites.

User Experience: Improve the speed and navigation of your site.

Metadata: Use catchy titles, alt, descriptions and descriptive tags on your pages.

XML Sitemap: Submit a sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools.

By adapting your SEO strategy to Bing’s preferences and algorithms, you can improve your website’s visibility and performance.

Alix Chaparro