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How to submit a sitemap to Bing

What you will learn here

▪ What does a sitemap mean

▪ Why should one submit a sitemap to Bing

▪ How to submit a sitemap to Bing

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1What does a sitemap mean


▪ A sitemap is a list of all the pages of a web site accessible to search

engine crawlers and users

▪ It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web

design or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, organized in

hierarchical fashion

▪ It contains links to all the pages on the site

▪ It has 2 formats- HTML and XML

What does a Sitemap mean


2Why should one submit a

sitemap to Bing


Why should one submit a sitemap to Bing

▪ Sitemaps are submitted with the purpose of making sure that all the

pages of your site get indexed by Bing, including URLs that may not be

discoverable otherwise

▪ Sitemaps are helpful if your site pages contains heavy images or

dynamic content that cannot be discovered easily by Bing search engine

▪ Sitemaps are useful especially in case of a new site, which has a few

links connected to it

▪ Majority of internet users use Bing as their search tool in comparison to

others

▪ Submitting the sitemap to Bing speeds up the discovery process and

provides better search results


3How to submit a sitemap to

Bing


Step 1:

▪ Log in to your Eshopbox site admin panel with your login id and password

▪ Click on the ‘Promote’ tab and select ‘SEO suite’ from the drop down

menu

SEO suite link

Promote tab



Step 2:

▪ After opening the SEO suite page, select the ‘Verify Store With Bing’ link

under the ‘SEARCH ENGINE’ option available under ‘SEO suite’ menu

SEO suite menu

Submit store sitemap to Bing

Search engine link




Step 3:▪ Go to http://bing.com/webmaster

▪ Login with your Windows Live ID and password

▪ In order to submit your sitemap with Bing webmaster, your store must

be verified with Bing webmaster first

Bing webmaster sign in


http://bing.com/webmaster


Step 4:▪ Go to Bing webmasters dashboard and click crawl from the top

navigation

▪ Now click the ‘sitemap’ link and select your site URL from the drop

down menu

▪ Click ‘Add Feed’ to submit your store sitemap to Bing


Step 5:▪ Eshopbox creates your store sitemap in XML as your site goes live

▪ Your store XML sitemap is located at ‘sitemap.xml’

▪ Add the XML sitemap path of your store URL by entering ‘sitemap.xml’

in the prescribed field

▪ Click on the ‘submit’ button



▪ Your store sitemap has been successfully submitted to Bing

▪ Now all the pages of your store will be indexed with Bing webmaster

automatically

▪ It will improve the page and search ranking of your site pages

▪ Bing will check the sitemap and start indexing your site as soon as it

has determined that the site has no errors



Good to know▪ You can set a priority and last modification date on your important

pages to ensure regular crawling

▪ Keywords will get more prominence and more search results for your Eshopbox site

▪ In order to submit a sitemap of your Eshopbox site, you will have to verify your store first

▪ View our ‘How to verify your Eshopbox site with Bing’ wiki to understand the steps required for the verification


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