Bing Webmaster Tools Reviews and Ratings

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We always use Bing Webmaster Tools in conjunction with Google Search Console, SEMRush, and other appropriate solutions. Each has its own vagaries and will flag different issues and offer slightly different solutions. Google is obviously the player that all search marketers have to satisfy. But it's taken years for Google to catch up to the thoroughly excellent Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing's version of these search engine view's understanding of a website has always been slightly better than Google's.

There are a couple of standout Bing options, including new integration with Microsoft's Clarity that allows you to see screen recordings of visits.

After closely looking at both, I think they're now well-matched. That means that Google should always be your first choice. You're optimizing for Google, not Bing, after all. But if your work processes support a second or third option, Bing would be a nice choice for second.

Likelihood to Recommend

I always make sure that we are actively using Bing and Google. There is a tradeoff in your time when you use more tools, but there's also benefit in multiple perspectives. And don't forget that Bing is a very viable search engine that receives 500 million search queries each month. You may find that your business benefits from a relatively small amount of attention paid to Bing because search ranking there is easier (not easy, easier).

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Bing Webmaster Tools is being used alongside Google Search Console as two services that help direct SEO efforts, fix SEO errors, establish deep links, report on-page metrics, and other SEO uses. It's great for keeping track of a website's visibility on SERP pages in Bing.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bing Webmaster Tools is pretty much essential for any SEO analyst. Not all SEO optimizations carry over between Google and Bing and it's good to get up-front validation on crawl errors from the search engine itself. Bing Webmaster Tools is especially relevant now that Yahoo and Bing are under the same roof.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our marketing department uses Bing Webmaster Tools; we are the only ones in the organization that use it. Our primary use for Bing Webmaster Tools is submitting new URLs on our website for indexing. When we have a new page on our site, or a new blog post, we submit it to Bing Webmaster Tools for indexing to make sure they crawl it.

Likelihood to Recommend

Bing Webmaster Tools isn't as useful of a tool as Google Webmaster, but it's still necessary to have. If you want to be found on search engines, making sure your site is indexed by all major engines (Google and Bing/Yahoo) is very important. But in most cases we really only use Bing Webmaster Tools when we absolutely have to - Google Webmaster can do everything we need it to and more and is where we live primarily.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bing Webmaster Tools in order to have Bing scour our site for new content every time we add a blog post, or change the site at all. It's pretty much a necessity. When you have Bing scan your site, you can see your new page come up on search results pretty much the same day. Aside from submitting sitemaps, we will also manually put in the URL of the new page that we are submitting. I'm not sure if that makes it faster or not, but it's easy to do.

The reports are nice and give you actionable items to address in order to increase your search rankings.

Bing webmaster tools is pretty much a necessity for anyone who has a web page.

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have a website, and you ever add content to it, then you really need to be submitting to Bing via their webmaster tools. If you haven't done this yet, you'll find that after just about a month your search rankings will be higher, and you'll get more traffic. I can't think of a reason why you wouldn't want to use these tools for your website.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bing Webmaster Tools to gauge whether the SEO efforts we are undertaking are having the desired impact on our organic traffic from Bing.

Likelihood to Recommend

<ul><li>See how your site does in search</li><li> See how Bing sees your site</li><li> Know what is driving traffic</li><li> What search terms are working</li></ul>

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Bing Webmaster tools to update and keep our website aligned with what Bing allows. The webmaster tools have deep search capabilities for your site and allow you to tune your website to get the greatest SEO available. The integration with their Bing Ads and keyword searches is so important and the fact that it is all in one accessible place makes it easy to not jump between different parts of the backend.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is another option to Google or Moz and is still important to tracking stats and SEO. Without the integration that Microsoft has created for Bing Webmasters, there would be a soft spot in the market. I think that for users who are more suited to Microsoft, the UI of the backend will be comforting. For those of us with more design backgrounds, we will use it because we have to, not because we want to.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using bing webmaster tools to help ensure that our client's websites adhere to optimum search engine best practices.

Likelihood to Recommend

Ability to disavow links is a major selling point point for bing! Interface and certain reports could me more streamlined