Monday, September 15, 2014

Add and Verify Site in Bing Webmaster Tools !!!

Verify a Site to Bing Webmaster
Bing search was previously known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search. It is one of the popular search engine from Microsoft. Yahoo search is another search engine from Microsoft. But among these search engine Bing is free and Yahoo is premium service. So, you can only submit your site/ blog to bing webmaster for free. Earlier I have shown how to Add and Submit a site to Google Webmaster Tools. And today I am gonna show How to Add and Verify a SITE to Bing Webmaster Tools.

  • Related Posts:
  1. How to Add Site to Google Webmaster Tools!!!
  2. How to Submit Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools!

Though Google is the world's largest search engine, but Bing also produce a good numbers of online traffic. Who don't want to get maximum? So, it is very important to submit your site to Bing Webmaster Tools. As Bing is a search engine from Microsoft, So, you need to have a Microsoft Account to Submit your site to Bing Webmaster tools. You can use your Yahoo, Hotmail and Outlook id to Sign Up for Microsoft Account.


Submitting A Site To Bing:

There are two way by which can submit your site to Bing search engine. One is only submitting the Homepage URL and other one is submitting the whole site with sitemap. Let's complete the whole process step by step...

  • Submitting Only Site URL:
  1. First you have to go here Bing Submit URL
  2. Then Enter your Site homepage URL (i.e http://www.ittimesbd.com) and also enter the Captcha code.
  3. Now click on Submit button.

That's it, Now you will see a message saying "Your request was successfully submitted". Here you will get three buttons. 1st one is Signup button, 2nd one is to know more about Bing Webmaster Tools and the 3rd one is to exit the process. Among these three buttons Signup button is important.


Open A Bing Webmaster Tools Account:

You can Sign up for free Bing Webmaster Tools Account. You just need to have a Microsoft Account. If you have a Outlook or Hotmail account then you likely have a Microsoft account already. Alternatively, just click sign-up and create a Microsoft account as part of the Webmaster Tools sign-up process.
  • Add and Varify a Site to Bing Webmaster:
Once you have a Bing Webmaster Tools account, you can add and submit your site's sitemap. Let's see how to add and submit sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools...
  1. First Sign In to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
  2. Then from the Left panel click on Add a Site link.
  3. Now enter your site homepage URL (i.e http://www.ittimesbd.com) in the URL box and enter the Sitemap URL in the Add a Sitemap box. (If you don't have any idea about sitemap then Read this Post About Creating Sitemap).
  4. Then click on ADD button.

    • Now you will have to verify the ownership of your site to complete the addition. For this you will get three option. But personally I will suggest you to choose Option 2:. In the Option 2: you will get a Meta Tag Code.

  5. Now Copy the Meta Tag Code from the Option 2.
    Bing Site Verification Button
  6. Then Paste this Meta Tag Code in the <head> section of your default web page.

    • For Blogger:
    1. Now open another window and Sign Into your Blogger Account and then go to Dashboard.
    2. Then click on Template option and click Edit HTML button. You will land on the HTML page.
    3. Here in HTML page find <head> tag and Paste the Meta Tag Code just below of it.
    4. Then click on Save Template button to apply it.

  7. Now back to Bing Webmaster Tools page and click on VERIFY button.

That's it. If you have completed the entire process properly then the verification of your ownership will be successful. And you will see Verified logo beside you site domain address like the above image.


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