Next up – lets get Bing Webmaster Tools set up. This is a very easy setup and can be done in a few minutes.
First of all, head over to Bing’s Webmaster Tools – https://www.bing.com/webmasters/
Click on ‘Get started’
When you sign in you can choose to use Microsoft, Google 🤮 or a Facebook Login. We use Microsoft for obvious reasons 😉.
When you add a site to Bing Webmaster tools, you have the option of importing from Google Search Console (nope…) or adding manually. We’ll choose the latter.
Put your site URL in the address box and click ‘Add’.
You’ll be prompted to verify your site. The easiest way and probably cleanest is to Use a CNAME record in your DNS.
We user Cloudflare, so lets do that!
Once done – click verify on Bing Webmaster Tools.
You should see the following confirmation:
Adding the default WordPress XML Sitemap
WordPress already comes with it’s own XML sitemap, since our site is still young – we’ll use the default one for now.
our one is : https://escapethegiant.com/wp-sitemap.xml
Lets add this to Bing Webmaster Tools
Click on Sitemaps > Submit sitemap
Add your sitemap url and Submit.
It can take up to 48 hours for your site to be processed. Have a look round Bing’s webmaster tools in the meantime!
Do you use Bing’s Webmaster Tools? let us know below!
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