Microsoft recently launched Bing search engine by renaming their 2 year old Live search . Bing is getting mixed reaction from both public and geeks .I have already shared my experience on Bing ,which is still worse in some aspects . But it seems that Microsoft is putting lot of efforts to bring a Google look alike in Bing .Bing now shows news results and indexes pages almost instantly . There is also an improvement in search speed . Another surprise is the traffic it brings . Recently I have seen sudden depletion in my incoming search engine traffic from Yahoo and a rise from Bing side . So I was forced to sign up and Submit websites to Bing webmaster center,which earlier I ignored . Here I will share how you can sign up with Bing Webmaster center ,submit a website /sitemap and to add Bing search box .
Bing search results are just like that was in Live search . So at this point they are not a competitor for Google . But traffic would increase due to their million $ advertisement tactics and if they are successful to maintain the current buzz in tech blogs and around geek community . So if you are a webmaster , you can take advantage of Bing traffic by submitting a website /blog to the webmaster account and verifying sitemap . We have already discussed the benefits of submitting a sitemap while discussing about Google sitemap for Blogger
Submit a website /blog to Bing search
The above one is just a basic submission If you want to add sitemap and collect more details ,you may consider creating a Bing webmaster account .
Go to Bing webmaster and sign into tools with your Windows Live /Hotmail/MSN account .
Now click on add a website >insert you website URL and sitemap location and submit . Blogger users can submit their atom feed (www.blog.com/atom.xml) as sitemap .
Verification is necessary to confirm ownership of the website and get more features and analyzes .
The above submission directs to Authentication page .
Choose Meta tag authentication ,then copy and paste the meta tag under to the head section of the target website .
Return to the site list and click on the verified site link .
Now you will be to collect detailed information about the website score ,backlinks and indexed pages of the target website in Bing search .
How to add a Bing search box to a website/ blog:
If you love Bing search ,you can add a Bing search box to your website /blog for the convenience of the users .Here is how you can do that .
Go to this web page intended for site owners .
There are two options ,one to create a basic search box and other an advanced one .
The second one is more customizable . Here you an opt to include your website to be included in search results . This search box will pop out within the website as shown below .
Select advanced search box > Tick site search and include display name and URL > click next > Here you will be able to customize the width ,color and language of Bing search box >Click next >Now copy the HTML+JavaScript code to the required location and save .
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