How to Submit A Sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools?

Most people submit a sitemap to Google Search Console but they forget to submit a sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing Webmaster Tools is a very good tool to analyze your blog traffic coming from Bing search.

If you want to know why people came to your blog, else you want to improve your blog, then the Bing Webmaster Tools can help you better. It can help you improve your blog using this research tool to grow your blog in a better way.

Submit a sitemap to Bing is very easy; no technical knowledge or expertise is necessary. I am going to explain the entire process step by step. I have also prepared a video on Youtube for more help.

Believe me, after using Bing Webmaster Tools, and you will get more output from your dream blog.

The Sitemap for Blogspot or Blogger

First, we’ll talk about sitemap types for a Blogspot or Blogger.

1. For a blog without a custom domain (For example https://www.techprevue.blogspot.com)
2. For a blog with a custom domain (For example https://www.techprevue.com)

For a blog without a custom domain

First method

https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Second method

Sitemap 1. https://techprevue.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap 2. https://techprevue.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000

For a blog with a custom domain

First method

Sitemap: https://techprevue.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Second method

Sitemap 1. https://www.techprevue.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap 2. https://www.techprevue.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000

Note: Custom domain sitemap has a limit of 500 posts, so we can submit two or more sitemaps (each has 500 posts) if you have more than 500 posts.

Steps to Submit A Sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools

1. Land to https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about

2. Click on Sign in; if you do not have a Microsoft account, you can sign up.

3. After that, select or add a site using the drop-down menu given on the left sidebar. If you are adding a new website, then you have to verify your ownership through meta tags or other available options. Ensure, you’ve completed the required steps before proceeding further.

4. Then, click the Sitemaps tab. You are seeing the Sitemap settings.

5. Now, click the blue “Submit sitemap” button.

6. Enter the sitemap to submit in the given box as shown above.

7. After that, a success message appears and vanishes.

The submitted sitemap will be crawled and processed in a couple of days.

Bing webmaster tools are helpful in analyzing and improving a site/blog. It is necessary to submit blog sitemap to Bing webmaster tools and keep tracking your page views and other important things.

It is helpful in the improvement of your blog traffic and doing keyword research. Submitting a sitemap is just a task of 5 minutes and no technical expertise is necessary after reading this article.