Submit your site to Microsoft Bing!
If you have already submitted your site to Google, Yahoo and Live, you will have to do it again, and this time for Bing! Bing is the hot topic now, next to Google’s Wave (an all-in-one tool for communication & collaboration from Google expected to release later this year). Bing already has indexes of many sites, probably they have used their existing Live/MSN Search’s index. If you are unsure whether your sites are indexed by Bing, you can find it by typing site:yourdomain.com in the search box (or) you can better submit your site & sitemap(optional) to Bing and make it’s job easier. To upload your site/sitemap infomation to Bing, all you need is a Bing Webmaster account which you can get it here. Use your live account (.net passport) to login to Webmaster Centre. Click “Add a Site” to submit your site. You’ll be presented with a forum similar to the one displayed below. Type in your website and if you do have an XML sitemap, you can add it here. Though sitemap is optional, it would help Bing to index all the pages of your site. Type in your email address in the Contact Information section. Submit the form once you are done.
Once you submit this information, you’ll have to authenticate yourself by either uploading an XML file or adding a META header. XML file upload would be better if you have access to FTP/File Manager and META header would be better if you have static HTML pages. I would suggest you to download and upload the XML file.
Download the XML File from the link and upload it to your root (/) directory and you are all done! You’ll be contacted on your email if Bing experiences problem while indexing.
I don't think that Bing will be successful until Microsoft sort out their indexing issues.
For example, sites that have almost all their pages indexed in Google have barely 20% indexed in Bing.
Therefore Bing is not seeing most of the web.
I wish Microsoft would sort this out – they have millions at their disposal and the brightest people working for them.
Yes! That’s why people still prefer Google’s Search Engine for its quantity of results and accuracy as well.
I cannot add my site to bing
Make sure you have followed the steps given above. Also, try submitting an XML Sitemap of your pages. :)
i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
Hi Cathy, so true. Google’s still preferred for its relevancy and quality.
my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
I use Bing and Google whenever i want to find something on the internet. I think that both search engines are very good. `