Dear Bing Webmaster Users,
We’re excited to announce a major change to the type of data and depth of guidance found in webmaster tools with our Phoenix update to Bing Webmaster Tools. This update includes a new, fresh user experience, a range of new tools including Link Explorerbeta and
SEO Analyzer/
SEO Reportsbeta, and updates to current tools such as our Keyword Research Toolbeta, and our URL Removal Tool, among others.
Read more below to get all of the details about our update and sign into your Bing Webmaster Tools account today to explore on your own!
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New user experience
Bing Webmaster has introduced an entirely new look and feel designed to be fresh and simple, allowing for easier access to data, enhanced discoverability of information and improved account management.
Below you can see the central ‘My Sites’ area in the new interface which will include top-line data for your verified sites. For each, you also have options to drill directly down into various key statistics as well as draw more precise data within a customizable date range.
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New: Link Explorerbeta
The ability to explore link information for any domain is here! Dive deep with this beta tool which allows you to explore links associated with any domain. Simply enter a URL (one at a time) and the tool will supply a list of known links pointing to the specified destination. The default setting will be to display external links pointed at the specified URL, though this can be switched to show internal links as well.
Users can also change the scope to show links pointed to either a domain, or an individual URL. If desired, a webmaster can enter specific anchor text they’d like the tool to locate as well, thus displaying the inbound links associated with the anchor text sought. A further refinement allows the system to perform an “additional query”, allowing you to drill in on specific keywords which appear on pages of other sites, which point links at you.
Link Explorer
New:
SEO Analyzerbeta
Get
SEO analysis direct from Bing! Going well beyond listing duplicate or missing this tool has approximately 15
SEO best practices in place. It will scan any URL you enter from one of your verified domains and build a report to let you know if the page scanned is in or out of compliance with each best practice.
This is an on-demand tool which can scan a single page at a time – making it great for checking new pages to understand where more work may be required.
SEO Analyzer
New:
SEO Reportsbeta
Using the same
SEO best practices as the new
SEO Analyzerbeta tool, the
SEO Reportsbeta tool will run an
SEO report every other week for any domains verified in your account. These reports provide aggregated counts of all the issues found, across each of the websites scanned:
SEO Reports
You can find these reports by periodically logging into your webmaster account. Please make sure your domains are verified, though, as we can only provide data on Bing Webmaster verified domains.
New: Fetch as Bingbotbeta
See your page as Bingbot does! This tool will allow a webmaster to request Bingbot to crawl a specified page and display the page as the crawler sees it. This could help a webmaster to understand if Bing is actually reaching a page and, since we supply the code we see when we retrieve it, the tool makes troubleshooting easier:
Fetch as Bingbot
New: Canonical Alerts
Canonical Alerts have been enabled because we see a lot of misuse of the rel=canonical tags. Consequentially, this new alert can help protect you should you make a mistake implementing your canonicals.
An example would be a situation where all canonicals point to your home page, essentially telling us your entire website is now a single page. In such a case, we’ll send you an alert in your Bing Webmaster account, and email it to you if your Bing Webmaster Tools communication preferences are set to receive alerts.
Updated: URL Removal Tool
The updated URL Removal Tool allows webmasters to quickly block a page from appearing in a Bing
SERP and will work much in the same way as before. The main change involving this tool is that the block applied will now expire in 90 days. This will allow a blocked page to reappear in the
SERP, however, as most blocks are applied to pages removed from websites (which return a 404 code) this should be just fine for two primary reasons:
Within that 90 days, we’ll have recrawled the website several times, seen the 404 code on the old URL and naturally let it fall from the index
Eight days prior to the block expiring, we will email the webmaster (at the email provided in their account) to alert them and give them the option to renew the block for another 90 days (there are no limits on the number of renewals that can be made)
Updated: Keyword Research Toolbeta
Back in March we launched our organic Keyword Research Toolbeta. We’ve heard the feedback and were able to squeeze a couple refinements into this update. Before, you were limited to a single keyword or phrase per request. We’ve expanded this to allow multiple entries (one per line) which will all run at the same time, helping to speed up your keyword research projects:
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