New Bing Webmaster Tools Live With New URL Inspection Tool Jul 30, 2020

[Jeffery]

New Bing Webmaster Tools Live With New URL Inspection Tool
Jul 30, 2020 by Barry Schwartz Search Engine Rountable

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In February Bing announced it was working on a new Bing Webmaster Tools, we saw some early screen shots of it then. Today is the day this new version goes completely live and within the next month the old tool will be gone.

You can access the new Bing Webmaster Tools at bing.com/webmasters/, the old one will be at bing.com/webmaster (without an S) for the next 30 days or so.

URL Inspection Tool

With this launch, Bing added a bunch of new features but one feature I did not cover before and is new, is the URL Inspection Tool that allow you "to inspect Bing indexed version of your URLs allowing to detect potential indexing issues due to crawl or not following Bing Webmaster guidelines."

What Else...

We already saw the new features including crawl control, URL submission, blocking URLs and more. Also a new site scan tool and robots.txt tester tool. Also, Bing released revamped Webmaster guidelines.

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More and more Marketers are using Bing to drive traafic to their websites. As an Internet Marketer I hold that when driving traffic to websites it is necessary to target on more than one search engine. Essentially, don't leave anything on the table and certainly nothing up to chance.

Bing's new tools are great for making Search Engine Optimazation (SEO) decisions when driving traffic to our websites. Not perfect at this stage. Getting better and better from my own perspective.

If you have been on the fence about including Bing into your SEO strategy.. now is the time, IMO. Don't let your competition beat you to the punch.

[Kurt]

I would say Bing is easily one of the most underappreciated sources of traffic. It doesn't send as much as Google for the same keywords, but it's often easier to rank on Bing for more comptetive keywords.