Bing vs. Google: Webmaster Tools – Part 1
Since Microsoft announced the launch of its competitive decision maker search engine, all
news to show the powers of Bing versus its first competitor and world first search engine Google.
While all news and posts gave great analysis about both Bing and Google –as search engines, all news neglected the included tools for webmasters.
I was lucky because Bing was launched in late May while I moved this site to new server with new domain name, that gave me opportunity to start adding my site to both Google Webmasters and Bing Webmaster tools as well.
In a series of 2 articles, I’m going to make a complete analysis and analogy between Bing vs. Google Webmaster tools.
Bing Webmaster Center
Note: You might need to install Silverlight to display images
Images up show all different options in Bing Webmasters Center.
First image shows the site list that can be added per account and authentication method used by each site.
Second image shows the summary of chosen site as for last date site was crawled by Bing bots, number of indexed pages, domain score and same details for top 5 pages crawled.
Next image shows site profile as for sitemap address, verification method and webmaster e-mail.
For Crawl Issues page, any crawling issues are shown if found.
Backlinks gives details about sites that have links for your site with score of reference pages.
Outbound Links shows links in my site that refer to other sites.
Keywords is a very weak tool to manually search keywords on site.
Sitemaps are a method to inform Bing bots about site pages.
Summary
Since May 2009, Bing crawlers didn’t crawl but only the homepage of the site! That’s pretty much weak crawler bot. Last crawling process was taken 25 days until the date of writing this article. Regarding profile, it’s very simple and doesn’t allow more details.
In the next article, I’m going to give details about Google Webmaster Tools and summarize the topic as well. Follow up!