Bing Webmaster Tools offers site verification, sitemap, URL Inspection, Site Explorer, and manual URL submission tools. It can import sites from Google Search Console; for regular new/updated URL notifications, IndexNow or URL Submission API can be considered instead of manual submission.
Site verified
URL submitted successfully
URL is known to Bing
Crawled but not indexed
Daily quota exceededBing Webmaster Tools offers site verification, sitemap, URL Inspection, Site Explorer, and manual URL submission tools. It can import sites from Google Search Console; for regular new/updated URL notifications, IndexNow or URL Submission API can be considered instead of manual submission.
Do not submit indexes until HTTP/HTTPS, www and canonical signals are combined on a single URL.
Test 200 response, robots, noindex, canonical, auth, WAF and render status.
Separate single URL, bulk sitemap, IndexNow, or custom API usage by search engine and content type.
Follow the webmaster reports in a dated format without counting the submission response as an index guarantee.
Do not submit private, admin, or personal user URLs to Bing.
Meaning: Google account and Search Console permission do not match.
Possible cause: Incorrect account/property.
Meaning: Bingbot cannot obtain crawl permission.
Possible cause: robots.txt engeli.
Meaning: The submission was received, but the indexing decision is separate.
Possible cause: Quality, canonical, or access issue.
Meaning: Manual/API submission quota for URL has reached.
Possible cause: Unnecessary repeat or high volume.
Meaning: Unable to get Bing sitemap URL.
Possible cause: 404, timeout, auth, or XML error.
Meaning: Bing may consider another URL as the primary one.
Possible cause: Canonical and redirect signals are conflicting.
Meaning: A WAF/CDN bot is being blocked.
Possible cause: Security rule or IP/UA filter.
Meaning: Site migration validates and simplifies some settings.
Possible cause: Normal operation.
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curl -sSI -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)' https://example.com/ | grep -iE '^HTTP|x-robots-tag|location:'Displays the basic response for Bingbot user-agent.
curl -sS https://example.com/sitemap.xml | python3 -c "import sys,xml.etree.ElementTree as ET; ET.parse(sys.stdin); print('XML OK')"This tool tests Sitemap XML parsing.
curl -sL https://example.com | grep -i 'msvalidate.01' | head -n 5Displays the Bing verification meta tag.
curl -sS https://example.com/INDEXNOW_KEY.txtIndexNow tests accessibility of the verification file.
curl -sL https://example.com/robots.txt | grep -iE 'user-agent|disallow|allow|sitemap' | head -n 80Displays robots rules affecting Bingbot.
curl -sS -o /dev/null -w 'HTTP:%{http_code} Final:%{url_effective}\n' -L https://example.com/new-urlIt shows the final status and target of the sent URL.
Submit the same URL every day with Submit URLsSend once for New/Updated URL; use IndexNow in regular flowKeep 301, 404, and noindex URLs inside the sitemap.Add only 200, canonical, and indexable URLs.User-agent: *
Disallow: /Allow crawling to public areas to be indexedPut key only in API bodyKey is accessible as a UTF-8 file at the specified keyLocationSite Explorer and URL Inspection provide detailed crawling/indexing information.
The Microsoft Bing IndexNow add-on or SEO add-on can make automatic notifications.
In content add/update/delete events, IndexNow API call can be made through queue.
No. Submission and verification tools provide a discovery signal; the search engine's indexing and ranking decision are separate.
There is no fixed time. Technical access may take days or longer depending on factors such as site quality, internal links, sitemap, and crawl priority.
Usually no. Instead of re-spamming, issues with robots, canonical, HTTP, content, and internal linking should be fixed.
It assists in Sitemap URL discovery; crawlability, canonical, content quality, and site structure are still required.
IndexNow is used for supported search engines. On the Google side, Search Console, sitemap, and official Indexing API flow are separate.
No. It should contain only the canonical and 200 returning URLs that are intended to be indexed.
Domain, URL, key and file paths should be changed according to the project and tested in a staging or controlled environment.
We organize Search Console, Bing Webmaster, Yandex Webmaster, sitemap, robots, canonical, IndexNow, WordPress, custom PHP and WISECP indexing flows together.