How to get listed in the Bing search engine

Posted on 六月 2, 2009 by admin
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Here’s a complete guide on how to get listed in the Bing search engine. There’s been a lot of talk lately in the search engine community about getting a high listing in this search engine, especially on what it takes to get high in the SERPS (Search engine page rankings). As the Bing search engine is relatively new, it’s very important to get listed early to make sure that you make the most of Microsoft’s new decision engine product.

So how do you get a good ranking in the Bing search engine? Here’s the guide to getting listed:

How to get listed in the Bing search engine

Step 1 – Check your site is not indexed
The first step to getting your site listed in Bing is to check that it’s not already listed! Go to www.bing.com and search for your site (put the full URL in to the search box) and press the ‘search’ button. If it shows up, then it is indexed (go to step 3). If it’s not, then go to step 2!

Step 2 – Add your site to the Bing search engine

how to get listed in bing search engine

Go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/WebmasterAddSitesPage.aspx and add your site to Bing! You have to put the website address as well as the Sitemap address (see Step 3).

Step 3 – Make sure your site is ready
This step to getting a good listing in Bing is to make sure your website has the correct components – a sitemap (saved at www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml) and this should have a list of all of the pages on your website and the pages you want indexed. Microsoft Bing will crawl your site before listing it, and so to not have this vital piece of the indexing pie is crucial. You will also need a robots.txt file which is not blocking the Bing spiders.

Step 4 – Enjoy your listing in Bing!
The crawler from Bing will crawl your site in exactly the same way as the Google crawler – so make sure your page is optimized for SEO in the same way as the other pages. A listing in the Bing search engine has the potential to bring in huge amounts of traffic, as Microsoft are preparing to spend a huge amount of money on advertising its new product. Get high rankings fast!

If you have any comments and further tips, please leave a comment and let us know how to improve your rankings in Bing.com. Otherwise, that’s it – you should now know how to get listed in the Bing search engine!

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  • http://www.meanrachel.com meanrachel

    Does the sitemap have to end with .xml or can it just be a /sitemap URL?

  • https://chatsmileysemoticons.com Emoticons and smileys

    meanrachel – for convenience (of submitting sitemaps to all different search engines (Google, Yahoo etc) I would suggest keeping one sitemap, on the root of your site (www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml) and with the xml extension. Bing will use a sitemap that is compliant with the sitemaps.org site specifications, so check them out if you have any more questions.

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  • http://www.GaGaTak.com GaGaTak

    That was very useful dude… Now my site also appears in Bing Search…. Thanks..

  • https://chatsmileysemoticons.com Emoticons and smileys

    Glad to hear it! if I come across any mroe tips on getting higher rankigns on Bing, I’ll let you know.

  • http://www.robabdul.com Rob Abdul

    I don’t think that Bing will be successful until Microsoft sort out their indexing issues.

    For example, sites that have almost all their pages indexed in Google have barely 20% indexed in Bing.

    Therefore Bing is not seeing most of the web.

    I wish Microsoft would sort this out – they have millions at their disposal and the brightest people working for them.

  • http://realdadblog.com Dad Blog

    This helped me a lot to list my site on Bing. It does take awhile to get listed and I also agree it has an indexing issues.

  • http://www.cheftimintucso.com Sue

    How do you add the XML File Authenticaiton or the HTML Meta Tag to a website that has been created using Mac’s iWeb?

  • http://techkritik.com Balend N

    Getting indexed on bing takes a long time. For those who are indexed, how is the traffic that its sending?

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