Microsoft’s latest search engine Bing is getting a lot of attention these days. Recently it has taken over Yahoo to acquire the number two spot. Webmasters can certainly use this popularity of Bing to increase traffic to their websites. One way of getting traffic is by adding your websites to the Bing’s Search Index and here is the way of doing it.
1. Navigate to this page. All you need is a Windows Live ID to access this page. You can create a live ID, if you haven’t got one.
2. After entering the Webmaster Center, you have to enter the website URL and the sitemap(which is optional).
3. Next step is to authenticate yourself as a website administrator, you can do this by uploading a verification XML file to your server or by adding a meta tag to the homepage.
4. You can see different details about your website once the verification process is completed.
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- Make your websites more Bing Friendly with these new features
- Perform your regular SEO Tasks in Google Chrome using Chrome SEO Extension
- Get your website/blog checked by Google for Free
- Search Bing and Twitter at the same time with BingTweets
- Download Windows Live Essential 2011 Beta 2
- Opera & Custom Search
- Enabling Firefox style Inline Search in IE7
- Bit.ly, URL shortening service of the future
