Submitting your websites sitemap to as many search engines is the nice way of getting all your website pages indexed and thus creating channels or pathways for the search engine traffic to your website. Bing is the newest of the Search Engine offering from Microsoft. It has taken the world by surprise by getting ominous popularity within a short period of time. It has many improved features than the Microsoft’s previous offering MSN/Live Search Engine.
[Prerequisites] For submitting your sitemaps to Bing you must have a msn, hotmail or live account.
Now please login to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ with your credentials.
Now your will see
- Robots.txt validator
- HTTP verifier
- Keyword research tool
in the sidebar.
- You will see ADD SITE in the main page.
- After adding your site to your account. Click on your website link in the Control panel.
- You will now be asked to authenticate that its your website/blog. It can be done by either placing the tag provided by Bing or by placing an HTML file provided by bing on your websites root folder.
- After authentication you will see the sitemaps option in the Menu Bar.
- Now you can submit your Sitemap URL of the Website (http://my-website.com/sitemap.xml).
You can add any number of sitemaps and websites to bing, but if you can authenticate them.
You may also like to see the tutorial and ways on How to create Sitemaps for your website/blog.
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I use Bing and Google whenever i want to find something on the internet. I think that both search engines are very good.