Submitting sitemaps to Bing

Posted by Josh on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010.

Submitting a sitemap to Bing is trivially easy. Simply go to http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YourWebAddress.com/sitemap.xml, replacing “www.YourWebAddress.com/sitemap.xml” with your website’s sitemap URL. Unfortunately this method provides no feedback about the success of processing your sitemap or if errors were encountered.

The more advanced method is to utilize Bing Webmaster Tools. Adding your site enables you to see information such as crawl status, errors encountered, common keywords through which people find your site, and so on. It also allows you to specify sitemap files if you click on the Crawl tab and then Sitemaps on the left side menu.