Questions tagged [bing-webmaster-tools]

Bing's Webmaster Tools provides data for webmasters to use and address potential SEO issues, and serves as the primary mechanism for Bing to communicate those issues to site owners.

Bing's Webmaster Tools provides data for webmasters to use and address potential SEO issues, and serves as the primary mechanism for Bing to communicate those issues to site owners.

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Do i need to Submit Separate (Mobile) Sitemap for AMP pages?

before responsive design we need mobile specific sitemaps, but with responsive design they were not needed. But with introduction of Accelerate Mobile Pages (AMP), we are again having mobile specific URLs, so my questions are: Do we need Separate…
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Is it OK to add site verification files to public source control?

When submitting my website to Google and Bing they require I verify it by (for example) uploading a file. This file, if I have understood, should not be removed because they recheck it regularly and removing it would mean I'd lose access and need to…
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Bing Webmaster API responding Error 400 ThrottleUser

As the subject line states, all API calls for the past 6 days have resulted in Error 400 ThrottleUser responses. Tried a new api key; pox, json and service connections. Is this happening to everyone? Does anyone know how to tell them it is not…
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Why am I getting this error “one or more unbound namespace prefixes” for Sitemap.xml

I have submitted my sitemap.xml into google webmaster tools. We found error such as "The XML Sitemap cannot be parsed because it contains one or more unbound namespace prefixes. For example, this error is generated when is found in a Sitemap…
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POST requests to Bing Webmaster API always gives NotAuthorized

I'm trying to programmatically submit sitemap index files to Bing via HTTP POST requests. I followed the JSON request example from their documentation page. Here is the request I'm trying to make in cURL (I replaced the site url and apikey): curl…
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robots.txt - noindex images, noindex admin - wordpress

I am currently using robots.txt file that disallows indexing my WP Admin. Currently my robots file looks like this: User-agent: * Disallow: /wp-admin/ Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php I would like the search engines to also STOP indexing my images.…
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Bing Webmaster Tools API OAuth code exchange issues, changes?

This is part of a desktop application. Based on https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bingwebmaster/oauth2 The following code to exchange the authorization code for the access and refresh tokens was working as of a few months ago... try { …
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Pelican blog - Verify ownership Bing webmaster

To verify ownership of my blog, the bing webmaster requires one of the following three approaches: Upload the file "BingSiteAuth.xml" to my website as https://mywebsite/BingSiteAuth.xml Copy and paste a meta tag in my default webpage e.g.
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Bing Webmaster Tools "Discovered but not crawled", How to Fix it?

I have a website created in 2018. It is performing well in Google Search. But it is not indexed in Bing Search. I have registered my website to Bing Webmaster Tools, and even integrated with IndexNow. I also submitted individual URL using URL…
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How can i re-create bing's webmaster verifiction DNS TXT record for an already verified domain?

Our website's Bing verification TXT record was accidentally deleted yet i see no way to create a new one for an already verified domain. I'm afraid that as in 'google search console', at some point the domain will be removed from bing's webmaster…
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How to set a property whose value is an enum

I'm new to C# and the .NET Framework. I'm building a small console app to "block" URLs from Bing's index because they were accidentally indexed. I'm using the Bing Webmaster API to do this. I do not understand how to set two properties of the…
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AggregateRating Schema: Mixed Validation Results

We use schema.org to markup a number of different data types. I have typically relied on the Google testing tool to confirm that my schema is correct, but I've found that I get mixed results when testing with Bing, Yandex, Linter and MOZ. Currently…
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Is there a way to filter based on dates in Bing Webmaster API calls?

I am trying to fetch some page stats using GetPageStats method in IWebmasterApi for a url. It returns stats for all the dates. Is there a way to set filter on dates we want the date for? I am sending a GET request through Postman and not using c#…
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Should I include already indexed pages in my sitemap.xml?

I'm creating a sitemap.xml for a new website. For now, I am only including pages from our user-generated content system into the sitemap.xml. However there are other pages that are plain-old static html pages and a staff blog built on wordpress.…
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HTML size is too long - Bing Webmaster Tool Error

I built a website using Elementor with Wordpress. Bing webmaster tool has given a warning on my homepage stating that "HTML size is too long". The page is basic and not long. Also, no other pages on the site are listed with the same error even…
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