Bing has unveiled a new feature that gives users competitive backlink data for similar and recommended sites.
Bing Brings Back Webmaster Guy After Laying Him Off
It’s been an interesting year in terms of search engine to webmaster communication. Both Google’s Matt Cuts and his Bing counterpart Duane Forrester went away. Matt announced that he was taking an extended leave, and then later extended that leave…
Bing Lets You Connect Social Pages To Webmaster Tools
Bing announced a new Connected Pages feature for its Webmaster Tools offering, enabling webmasters to connect their various other official pages to their account, and track how users are getting to them. You can now connect your pages from Facebook,…
Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Geo-Targeting, New Malware Tool
Microsoft has launched two new features for Bing Webmaster Tools: a new malware tool and geo-targeting. If Bing detects that a site is serving malware (either willingly or unwillingly) it will send a notification to the webmaster in Bing Webmaster…
Bing Launches Sitemap Plugin (Beta)
Bing announced the launch of a public beta program for the Bing Sitemap Plugin, an open source server-side offering, which generates XML Sitemaps (compliant with sitemaps.org) for sites running on IIS and Apache. The plugin can generate both comprehensive sitemaps…
Here’s A “Deep Review” Of Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing has released a webinar video featuring a “deep review” of Bing Webmaster Tools, so if you haven’t gotten familiar with it, this is probably a good place to start. It’s an hour long, and chock-full of info. Video: Bing…
Bing Webmaster Tools Changes Site Activity Calculations
Bing announced a new change to its Webmaster Tools, related to how it calculates Change in the Site Activity widget. Vincent Wehren explains on Bing’s Webmaster Center blog, “For the metrics Clicks from search, Appeared in search, Pages crawled, and…
Go Ahead, You Can Now Tell Bing to Ignore Links
While the SEO brethren have been waiting for Google to provide a tool that will allow webmasters to disavow specific links, Bing went ahead and punched that ticket first by launching the Disavow Links feature in Bing Webmaster Tools. The…
Duane Forrester: More Details on Bing Phoenix Update
Duane Forrester continues the SEO media tour supporting Bing’s Phoenix update, this time stopping by Stone Temple Consulting to give a detailed explanation of what the new Bing Webmaster Tools can do for users. Forrester’s doing a great job of…
Duane Forrester’s How-To for New Bing Webmaster Tools
Last week, Bing announced its Phoenix update that includes an armada of new and updated utilities for Bing Webmaster Tools that should give webmasters whole new dimensions of search data to tinker around with and evaluate. While the Bing Team…
Derrick Connell: Bing Results as Good if Not Better Than Google
Vice President of Bing Program Management Derrick Connell visited SMX Advanced 2012 today to talk about some of Bing’s recent changes as well as a sit-down Danny Sullivan and Michelle Robbins of Search Engine Land for a Q&A session about…
Bing Details How To Control BingBot Crawling Behavior
BingBot is the cute name that Microsoft gives the bot that crawls the Web indexing the content is returned to users who use its search function. BingBot might start to index unwarranted content or it might index enough content sometimes.…
Bing Details URL Normalization In Webmaster Tools
Even though Google is arguably on top in terms of Webmaster tools, you can’t discount Bing. It’s the second most popular search engine now and plenty of people use it. The good thing is that you can apply tips from…
Bing Details Paginated And Sequenced Content Implementation
For the sake of conversation, let’s say you are the admin of a Web site. If you are already, that’s even better. You prioritize how your Web site pages are linked to be picked up more easily by search engines.…
Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Organic Keyword Research Tool, API
At SMX West today, Microsoft’s Bing revealed some updates to Bing Webmaster Tools. There’s a new organic keyword research tool and an API. On the keyword research tool, Bing’s Duane Forrester explains, “This tool allows you to perform keyword research…
Bing Webmaster Tools Gets Markup Validator
Bing Webmaster Tools has a new tool called the Markup Validation Tool, which can be found under the “crawl” tab “This tool is a great way to understand if the added code is actually going to be readable, as intended,”…
Yahoo Traffic Data Comes to Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing announced that it is now integrating Yahoo traffic data into Bing Webmaster Tools. It’s a little surprising that they’ve waited this long to do so, as the Search Alliance between Bing and Yahoo has been in place since last…
Bing’s New Webmaster Tools Are Here
At SMX Advanced last month, Microsoft announced that Bing would redesign its Webmaster Tools this summer. The new version is now available.
Bing Webmaster Tools Senior Product Manager Anthony M. Garcia summarizes the changes: