Recently MSN has been beta testing it’s new search engine Bing. Bing is destined to replace the old MSN live and Microsoft are hoping that their new search will propel it to the top in the search engine wars. And after a very short time Bing is showing encouraging movement up knocking Yahoo off at number 2 in a number of countries.
So having your website ranking well in the new MSN Bling has never been more important. So how do you submit you website to Bing?
Well, just like the old MSN search, Bing is a very simple process of logging into the Bing Webmaster Centre using your Windows Live account details.
You will then be asked for 3 things:
- Your website address. eg www.yourdomain.com.
- The xml sitemap address www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml or www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
- Optionally you can also give Bing your email address. I didn’t but you maywant to.
Once you have submitted your website to Microsoft Bing their crawler bot will visit your site to make sure its real and then will visit daily or weekly, slowly indexing every page.
To date I have received more than 10,000 unique (new) visitors for Bing. To get your website submitted to Bing you will need a Windows Live account. And then you can go to the Bing website submission page.
Another good read: How to add website to Google
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bing will never be number one
please add website to listing.
A printing company website with online portfolio
way more fun with toys
for me Microsoft and all MS products are no.1
Bing is the thing!
Unable to get the website indexed
Bing = b0rked!
Firstly, Bing thinks I’m in United Kingdom when I’m in Australia…close cookies MS but no cigar.
Secondly, Bing obviously cannot differentiate between Austria and Australia: it’s showing Austria related content because I’ve searched for results in Australia, LOL!…hey MS – news flash: Australians don’t have basements to lock their children in
Thirdly, I cannot locate my own domain name for my web development business in Bing and attempts to add it via Bing’s Webmaster Console yeilds ‘Error: en-au’…wow, talk about useless error message!
So MS, get back to me when you’ve got your sheits together mkay?