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Bing Webmaster Tools is a search engine optimization software solution offered by Microsoft.https://media.trustradius.com/product-logos/AG/Xm/5M74VSMPGVT5.pngMicrosoftThe Surprisingly Effective Younger Brother to Google Search Console2019-07-05T17:48:15.754ZBing Webmaster Tools is being used alongside Google Search Console as two services that help direct SEO efforts, fix SEO errors, establish deep links, report on-page metrics, and other SEO uses. It's great for keeping track of a website's visibility on SERP pages in Bing.,Clarity. Bing Webmaster Tools is well-designed and easy to navigate, even for beginners.
Keyword rankings. Gives more visibility than Google Search Console into how your website ranks for specific keywords.
In-program SEO editing. Allows you to submit URLs, disavow links, block URLs, control BingBot's crawl, and more.,Better clarity on traffic data from Bing and Yahoo separately.
Easier ownership verification.,9,Sessions from Bing and Yahoo have increased year over year.
Zero critical SEO errors.,Google Search Console,Facebook for Business, Hotjar, OlarkGriffin HansenA useful tool that could be improved upon2018-12-20T15:50:29.396ZOur marketing department uses Bing Webmaster Tools; we are the only ones in the organization that use it. Our primary use for Bing Webmaster Tools is submitting new URLs on our website for indexing. When we have a new page on our site, or a new blog post, we submit it to Bing Webmaster Tools for indexing to make sure they crawl it.,Make it easy to submit new pages to be crawled
SEO reports provide feedback on our webpages that aren't following best-practices
Overall there are a lot of different second-level tools that you may not know exist until you begin using it,The user-interface isn't as friendly or appealing as Google's - very bland overall.
The way they present their Page Traffic report is a big turn-off. It's basically just a grid of numbers and arrows which is hard to interpret at a high level.,6,Bing Webmaster Tools has allowed us to index our website and individual web pages quickly and efficiently for SEO purposes.
It has provided us with good feedback in terms of applying SEO best practices to our web pages.,Google Search Console,Proto.io, Adobe XDJordan HarpstA must have for anyone with a website.2018-06-21T21:24:57.557ZWe use Bing Webmaster Tools in order to have Bing scour our site for new content every time we add a blog post, or change the site at all. It's pretty much a necessity. When you have Bing scan your site, you can see your new page come up on search results pretty much the same day. Aside from submitting sitemaps, we will also manually put in the URL of the new page that we are submitting. I'm not sure if that makes it faster or not, but it's easy to do.
The reports are nice and give you actionable items to address in order to increase your search rankings.
Bing webmaster tools is pretty much a necessity for anyone who has a web page.,Site crawls, once initiated, don't take very long to complete
SEO analysis tells you which pages are not following best practices
Page Traffic reports tell you which of your sites are appearing in search, their position in the rankings, and how it's been performing over time
You can see the keywords people use to search for your site,The interface could be a little bit better when compared to Google's solution,9,ROI is huge, as there is no upfront cost, but traffic increases
Takes very little time from a labor standpoint.,Google Analytics and Moz,Open Dental Software, Comcast VOIP, HostGatorVerified UserGet to know your Bing traffic2018-02-15T19:21:49.084ZWe use Bing Webmaster Tools to gauge whether the SEO efforts we are undertaking are having the desired impact on our organic traffic from Bing.,Verify search terms
Calculate inbound traffic
See how users are finding the site,Can’t see total search volume
Hard to know what to improve
Needs ROI calculator,8,Know where to focus
Understand value of terms
Evaluate content,Google Wemaster ToolsVerified UserBing Webmaster pulls together all of your needed SEO tools!2017-08-11T21:51:15.042ZWe use Bing Webmaster tools to update and keep our website aligned with what Bing allows. The webmaster tools have deep search capabilities for your site and allow you to tune your website to get the greatest SEO available. The integration with their Bing Ads and keyword searches is so important and the fact that it is all in one accessible place makes it easy to not jump between different parts of the backend.,Quick access to all of your Bing stats.
The ability to jump between SEO, keyword and site maximization makes working in Bing Webmaster tools easy.
The diagnostic tools that allow you to research issues or overcome challenges is really clean and easy to navigate.,The UI is simple but very boring. It's very Microsoft and not very elegant.
On the display of analytics, it is also very simple, without the ability to change graphs or charts to better display data.
Bing Businesses could be better integrated and takes you to another site to view that data.,6,We haven't seen major ROI while using Bing, but we haven't put a lot of time into maximizing the use of Bing.,Google Analytics Premium, Moz and Google Search Console,Slack, Basecamp, Adobe Acrobat DCJon AckermanBing Webmaster Tools2017-04-13T16:19:26.129ZUsing bing webmaster tools to help ensure that our client's websites adhere to optimum search engine best practices.,SEO analyzer is a very handy tool that is exclusive to Bing webmaster tools
Best help and support among the major search engines
XML sitemap plugin is a great feature that doesn't appear in other webmaster tools
Ability to disavow links. Not available in google!,Interface is clunky compared to google search console
search keyword report data is not as robust as google
Some bing dashboards have too much information and could be put in separate reports,9,Not really an ROI product but the ability to do more tasks than google is something that can be used as added value for clients
Having another search engine to do reporting on helps increase hours and client spend
some issues flagged in bing but not seen in google can be fixed once shown in BWT,Google Search Console,AdWords, Adobe Analytics, Bing AdsEamonn Kelly
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