Blogs

Quick Setup guide for Bing's Adaptive URL Submission API. Integrate today with your website to get your URLs indexed in Bing real time and increase traffic to your website.
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Today we are releasing the Adaptive URL submission feature allowing you to submit up to 10,000 URLs per day, with no monthly quotas. This is a significant increase in the number of URLs webmaster can submit to have their content crawled and indexed.
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Today, we are excited to announce the release of Clarity, an analytics product that empowers webmasters to visualize user behavior at scale to make data driven decisions on what exactly they should change and improve on their sites to optimize conversion, engagement and retention.  For this purpose, Clarity supports playback of how users interacted and used their websites. Clarity also has other typical functionalities such as heatmap and...
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There are multiple features in Bing Webmaster Tools that allows webmasters to check Bingbot’s performance and issues on their site, provide input to Bingbot crawl schedules and check if that random bot hitting the pages frequently is actually Bingbot or not. In part 4 of our Bingbot series, Nikunj Daga, Program Manager for Bing Webmaster Tools, revisits some of those tools and features that assists webmasters in troubleshooting and...
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As we shared last week at SMX East, bingbot is generally able to render JavaScript. It can be difficult for bingbot to process JavaScript at scale on every page of every website, while minimizing the number of HTTP requests at the same time. Bing recommend dynamic rendering as a great alternative for websites relying heavily on JavaScript. Click through to learn more!
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In part 2 of our bingbot series Principal Software Engineering Managing of the crawl team Cheng Lu shares one example of how we’ve optimized our processes to maximize crawl efficiency for large web sites whose content remains static, or unchanging.
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What does the bingbot do and why does Bing need it? This is the first article in the series related to bingbot dand how we are focused on improving the bingbot crawler over the next 18 months. Discover what the bingbot is and what some of the challenges are with trying to manage expectations of webmasters and content systems at scale when they all have different views on the frequency of which their sites are crawled.
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Bing is announcing the release of the AMP viewer and the Bing AMP Cache. If you have an AMP enabled site, please allow the Bingbot to fetch your content and authorize bing-amp.com for CORs referencing.
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Saying Goodbye is never easy, but the time has come to remove the ability to anonymously submit URLs directly through Bing.com's URL submission tool. Webmaster Tools will still support the ability to submit URLs and Sitemaps in the a logged in state.
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Introducing JSON-LD support as part of Bing Webmaster Tools. The Markup Validator now supports six languages include: JSON-LD, Schema.org, HTML Microdata, Microformats, Open Graph, and RDFa.
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