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Bing Webmaster Tools ↔ web console to config/review Bing crawl settings, reports & performance

Source: www.bing.com/webmasters/

If you use Google Domains - you can very conveniently import site settings over to Bing Webmaster Tools & skip further webmaster auth steps

Bing SEO Report

autogen biweekly report to

Bing Crawl

Bing Webmaster Tools lets you config crawl rate by hourly basis (to minimize impact on traffic).

increase crawl speed for bing (assuming your site can handle 1000+ reqs/d) image

Bing URL Submission

to dispatch URLs for Bing to "immediately" evaluate for Bing Quality Criteria & (allegedly) get content indexed faster. Annoyingly, prevents any subdomain URLs?!

Must manually resubmit URLs- Bing does not appear to re-check Stale pages it has previously flagged for Bing Penalty image

bing limits daily quota for (manual) URL submissions at 100/d - must request support ticket for quota increase (subject to approval) image

Source: www.bing.com/webmasters/support

Bing crawl quota resets at 00:00AM UTC+0

Even with a 10K URL submission quota - you can only manually submit links through bing portal at rate of 500 URLs per submission! The quota increase is only meaningful if you have wired up IndexNow to automatically submit URLs to bing.

Bing does not appear to automatically scan for sitemap changes (daily) like google! Need to click on "resubmit" for Bing to process - annoying!

Bing Site Scan

very useful Bing Webmaster Tools to manually trigger crawl for specific routes or spider from start URL up to certain depth/limit - and output audit for

References

  1. Bing Site Scan ↔ very useful Bing Webmaster Tools to manually trigger crawl for specific routes or spider from start URL up to certain depth/limit - and output audit for