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 http://www.bing.com/toolbox/webmaster
2. Click on Sign in, if you do not have Microsoft account you can sign up
3. After that type blog address and click on ADD button
4. On the next page, you have to enter sitemap of your blog and click on ADD button
5. Now you’re on next page where you’ll find meta tag for owner verification, and you have to add this meta tag to Blogger template
Note: Learn about Blogger template editing
6. After that click on the VERIFY button
7. After successful verification of your blog, you’ll receive a message, e.g., https://www.techprevue.com is verified.
8. Now you can click on ‘My sites’ which is given on the left-hand side
9. Click on ‘My sites’. You’ll get the list of your blogs if you have more than one blog added.
10. And an overview of the stats of a blog is on this page.
11. By clicking on the blog domain (e.g., https://www.techprevue.com), you can get detailed stats
12. From this page, you can submit more than one sitemap again for your sitemap. You are Done!
Video Tutorial
Conclusion
Bing webmaster tools are helpful to analyze and improve 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.
Nice blog i never thought about Bing webmaster tool for blogs and continue working on Google’s webmaster tool. Thanks for sharing this information.
Welcome Tulip!
Thanks for sharing this useful information till now i didn’t hear much about Bing webmaster. To be frankly i thank to you.
Welcome James! :)
Your blog is very informative and gracefully your guideline is very good.Thank you
Most welcome Mamta!
Yes Brother, Bing is vary good website analyse tool. But I have submitted my sitemap before 10days But it still pending. I don’t Know why?