Submit Sitemap to Bing Search

Tutorial How to add website or blog sitemap to Bing Search Engine Center for self-hosted wordpress blog, wordpress.com and blogger.com blogspot and other blogging platforms (Typepad, Movable Type, etc). This tutorial is part of SEO Guide and Tips series.

CONTENTS

1. Sitemap for Self-Hosted WordPress
2. Sitemap for Blogger Blogspot
3. Sitemap for WordPress.com

You may also want to submit your blog/website sitemap to Google Webmaster and Yahoo! Site Explorer.

I.  For Self-Hosted WordPress Blog

Assuming that you have installed Sitemap Plugins (if not, download and install it first).

Then follow these steps:

1. Login to your Windows Live account and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
2. Add your site to Bing by filling in your URL (Example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com). Click Submit site.
3. Put the Bing verification code Meta Tag into your blog header or just upload the XML File in the root (-/public_html/–put-it-here–) using FTP.
4. Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
5. Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/sitemap.xml.
6. Click Submit. Done.

II. For Blogger.com Blogspot Blog

1. Login to your Windows Live account or Hotmail and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
2. Add your site to Bing by filling in your Blogger Blogspot URL (Example: http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com) -> Click Submit site.
3. Put the Meta Tag verification code into your blogger.com header at login -> Layout -> Edit HTML -> put between < head > and </head>. The code looks like this: <meta name=”msvalidate.01″ content=”CCF722265F7F37EA03C459B639540151″ />
4. Click Save Template.
5. Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
6. Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://farzanesfandiar.blogspot.com/atom.xml.
7. Click Submit. Done.

III. For WordPress.com

1. Login to your Windows Live account or Hotmail and go to Bing Webmaster Center.
2. Add your site to Bing by filling in your URL (Example: http://afatih.wordpress.com) -> Click Submit site.
3. Put the Bing Meta Tag verfication code into your wordpress.com admin at login -> Tools / Perkakas -> Tools / Perkakas -> Bing Webmaster Center. The code you enter into the box, should look like this: CCF722265F7F37EA03C459B639540151 -> Click Save Change or Simpan Perubahan.
4. Click Verify my site now -> Bing will say “Verified” if there’s no error.
5. Click Add Sitemaps. Example: http://afatih.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml.
6. Click Submit. Done.

Tutorial in Pictures

1. Add website to Bing Sitemap Center

2. Verify your ownership. Use option 1 for self-hosted wordpress blog. Use option 2 for wordpress.com or Blogger Blogspot.