Blogs

Bing is adopting Microsoft Edge as the Bing engine to run JavaScript and render web pages. Doing so will create less fragmentation of the web and ease Search Engines Optimization (SEO) for all web developers. Bingbot will be evergreen as we are committing to regularly update our web page rendering engine to the most recent stable version of Microsoft Edge.
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Bing Webmaster Tools now allows webmaster to skip the manual site addition and verification process through the ability to import their verified sites from Google Search Console.
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Bing Webmaster Tools supports Domain Connect standard for site verification, reducing the time taken and simplifying the process for site addition.
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We are delighted to introduce Batch mode capabilities in 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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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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