Bing Webmaster Tools meaning in English

Bing Webmaster Tools

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What is Bing Webmaster Tools?

Bing Webmaster Tools is the main portal for site owners and web agencies to manage the search presence of websites in the Bing search engine.

What is Bing Webmaster Tools used for?

Verified site owners can use Bing Webmaster Tools to check site performance, submit sitemaps, fetch as Bingbot and much more.

How to verify your website in Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing have worked very hard to make verification an easy process.

If you already have a Google Search Console account you can simply import your website direct from Search Console in a few clicks.

To start, visit the Bing Webmaster Tools homepage and sign using one of the three options.

Bing Webmaster Tools sign up page

You can sign in using a Microsoft, Google or Facebook account.

Once logged in you can choose to either import any existing websites you have from your Google Search Console account (the fastest option), or to add your websites manually.

Bing Webmaster Tools verifation options page

Pulling in your website from Google Search Console will give you the ability to import:

  • Full list of websites in your Search Console account. Note: do not worry if there are any websites you do NOT want to import, you can choose which to keep/remove during the process
  • Sitemaps added to your Search Console account
  • Verification status of your websites - Bing Webmaster Tools will periodically check the Search Console verification status of your sites to make sure you are allowed to access the data

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