Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing Webmaster Tools (formerly Bing Webmaster Center) is a free service that offers tools to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of your website, and provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on Bing.

One of the steps required to configure Bing Webmaster Tools involves ownership verification of your domain.

This instruction below will show you how to verify your site ownership in multiple methods.

If You're Using Google Search Console

If you already have verified on Google Search Console, you can directly import your sites to Bing Webmaster Tools. Please check out our help article Setting Up Google Search Console for more details.

• Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
• Click the "Import" button in the Google Search Console box.
• Then follow the next steps to configure the import.

If You're Not Using Google Search Console

If you haven't set up Google Search Console, then you can add your site manually.

Method 1: Upload an XML File to Your Website

• Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
• Enter your site URL into the field on the right (https://www.tryoncord.com/ in this example).
•  Click the "Add" button.
• In the "XML File" section, click the "Download" button to download the verification file.

• Log in to the admin panel of your website and open the page editor of your home page (Dashboard>Pages>home).
• Click the "MEDIA" button on the left-hand panel.
• Click the "Upload Files" button, and then upload the verification file.
• Click the "Save" button located at the top left of the screen.
• Go back to the Bing Webmaster Tools page.
• Click the "Verify" button.

Method 2: HTML Meta Tag

• Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account.
• Enter your site URL into the field on the right (https://www.tryoncord.com/ in this example).
•  Click the "Add" button.
• In the "HTML Meta Tag" section, click the "Copy" button to copy the <meta> tag.

• Edit your website design (Dashboard > Website > Designs, select the design to edit).
• Click "SOURCE" in the left menu to view the source code of your website design.
• Paste the <meta> tag just before the closing </head> tag (you can use the shortcut "Ctrl + F" or "Command +F" and search "/head").
• Click the "Save" button located at the top left of the screen.
• Go back to the Bing Webmaster Tools page.
• Click the "Verify" button.

It may take up to 30 minutes for Bing Webmaster Tools to start data collection.