Bing SEO Tools is a website that offers an easy and intuitive way to test your website or blog’s SEO. You can use the site to create and submit an XML sitemap for your site, as well as check for broken links and any other errors. Our goal is to help you improve your site’s ranking in search engine results pages (SERPs), so you can drive more traffic to your web page.

Bing Seo Tools

Knowing how search engine crawlers interact with your site is crucial for organic rankings. The activity of crawlers reveals discovered web pages, followable links, accessible code, and more.

Many commercial tools emulate the behavior of search crawlers. But none beats data straight from the search engines themselves: Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

Both tools are essential for search engine optimization. They are free and connect to your site easily.

Google Search Console
Search Console has many useful reports for both beginners and experienced SEOs. The tool augments basic search info with specifics about how Google’s bot has interacted with the site.

To get started, verify your site with Search Console by connecting it to the Google Analytics account or using a plugin.

Search Console discloses the pages Google has indexed and provides helpful tips on improving other metrics, such as click-through rates, page speed, and more. The platform also shows keywords that users search to find your site.

I listed last month six critical Search Console reports. But there are other valuable sections.

The “Enhancements” tab addresses your rich snippets and whether Google has used them. The section shows only the snippets you quality for. For example, you won’t see “Product” in this section unless you’ve applied “product” markup on your site (using Schema.org or similar).
“Removals” allow site owners to request the removal of any URL from Google’s index.
“International targeting” (Legacy tools and reports > International targeting) allows site owners to specify a country to rank in.
“Change of address” (Settings > Change of address) alerts Google of upcoming domain name changes to mitigate the impact.
Screenshot of “Enhancements” section in Search Console.
Search Console’s Enhancements section addresses your rich snippets and whether Google has used them.

Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing Webmaster Tools provides helpful (and free) SEO tools. Bing provides an easy way to import your data from Google Search Console into a Webmaster Tools account. Verification is near-instant. Populating all reports can take up to 48 hours, in my experience.

The appearance of Webmaster Tools is similar to Search Console. Site performance reports include search queries and clicks. Other reports show crawl errors and inspection results of any URL to ensure search engines can access and index it.

For indexed URLs, Bing offers an enhancement report with optimization tips and missing elements.

Screenshot of Bing’s Webmaster Tools URL inspection report
Bing’s URL Inspection report includes optimization tips and missing elements.

“Site Explorer,” another helpful feature, provides an overview of your site’s structure and a detailed review of each section or URL. It’s essentially a free crawler to see how a search bot might interpret your site and its hierarchy. Site Explorer shows crawl errors, a page’s size and header response, and mistakes on Robots.txt that prevent crawls.

Screenshot of a sample Bing Webmaster Tools Site Explorer page
Site Explorer provides an overview of your site’s structure and a detailed review of each section or URL. It’s essentially a free crawler.

Webmaster Tools’ “Keyword Research” report can uncover new keyword opportunities and competitors. Click any word or phrase in the list to see:

Related keywords,
“Question keywords” those in a question format to include in your copy,
Newly discovered and trending keywords.
Screenshot of Bing Webmaster Tools’ Keyword Research report.
Webmaster Tool’s Keyword Research report can uncover new keyword opportunities and competitors, among other benefits.

Unlike Search Console, Webmaster Tools does not assess your site’s security. But it does disclose the status of a site’s copyright infringement claims, wherein a verified owner has filed with Bing a copyright infringement notice against another site. It’s an example of the two tools complementing each other.

2 Angles
Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools can help site owners improve organic traffic. Both provide info on their own search engine. Yet each offers a different angle, making it a good idea to use them concurrently.

Yandex webmaster tools

Yandex is often known as the Russian search engine.

It is not only the most popular search engine in Russia but also the second most popular after Google in many countries.

However, most of the countries where Yandex is popular have a large Russian-speaking population.

Worldwide, Yandex has a market share of around half a percent, which makes it similar in size to DuckDuckGo.

Yandex search home page
The Yandex search home page
It is a good idea to submit your site to Yandex by adding it to Yandex webmaster tools. This will help you optimize your site’s performance in Yandex search.

In addition, Yandex webmaster tools offers many useful reports and tools to optimize SEO generally, not just for Yandex.

For example, you can see external links to your site, broken links, crawling and indexing problems, and many others.

What is Yandex webmaster tools?
Yandex webmaster tools is a free web service provided by Yandex for webmasters to monitor their site’s performance in the Yandex search engine.

You can use it to upload a sitemap, see how much traffic you are getting, get a list of indexed pages, see crawling or indexing errors, site speed problems, etc.

It serves a similar purpose as Google Search Console and Bing & Yahoo Webmaster Tools.

How to add your site to Yandex webmaster tools
To add a website, you need to create a Yandex account, then add your site and verify that you own it.

Here are the steps to quickly submit your site to Yandex Webmaster Tools:

Go to this web page: https://passport.yandex.com/registration
Fill in your details to create a Yandex account, then click “Register”
Next, go to: https://webmaster.yandex.com/
Either log in or click “Go”
Click the “+” button or the “Add Site” button
Enter your site’s main URL and click “Add”
Copy the verification code inside the content part (without the quotes)
Go to your site and enter the verification code in your SEO plugin
Now go back to Yandex Webmaster Tools and click “Check”
Keep reading for more detailed instructions on how to do this, with screenshots.

Step 1 – Create a Yandex account
You need to have a Yandex account to add a site to the webmaster tools.

To create an account, go to this page: https://passport.yandex.com/registration

Now fill in your details (name, username, password, etc.) and click the “Register” button.

Create a Yandex account
Yandex wants you to add a phone number to make it is easier for you to recover your account later if you forget your password.

However, it is possible to skip this and use a security question instead.

Step 2 – Add your site
Now that you have a Yandex account, you can log in to Yandex webmaster tools to add your site.

Go here to access Yandex webmaster tools: https://webmaster.yandex.com/

Log in if needed, then click the “Go” button. Now you should see the page where you can submit your site.

Next, click the “Add Site” button, or the “+” button at the top.

Add a site to Yandex
Now you are prompted to add your site’s main home page URL. Make sure to include the correct version, including http/https and www if you are using it.

For my site, I have https enabled, but I don’t have a www subdomain. So I include https but not www.

Enter site address in Yandex webmaster tools
When you have entered your site into the form, click the yellow “Add” button.

Step 3 – Verify your website
Next, you need to verify the website to prove to Yandex that you are the rightful owner.

Yandex webmaster tools give 4 options to verify:

Meta tag: Add a html tag to the head section of your site.
HTML file: Upload a html file to your site’s root directory.
DNS Record: Add a TXT record to your DNS settings.
WHOIS: Add and verify your WHOIS email via Yandex.Passport.
The meta tag option is very simple if you are using an SEO plugin in WordPress.

Verification meta tag in Yandex webmaster tools
You simply copy the text inside the content=”” part of the meta tag (without the quotes) and enter it into your SEO plugin.

If you are using Yoast SEO, then go to your WordPress Dashboard -> SEO -> General -> Webmaster Tools.

Then paste the verification code into the box for Yandex Webmaster Tools.

Yandex verification code in Yoast
You can also do this with most other good SEO plugins, like the SEO Framework (which is a much better SEO plugin than Yoast).

Now go back to Yandex webmaster tools and click the yellow “Check” button.

If the verification works, you will get a confirmation that your site is verified. If it doesn’t work, clear your site’s cache and then try again.

Congratulations! You have now added and verified your site in Yandex webmaster tools.

Next: Add a sitemap, set geotargeting
It can take a few days for the dashboard and reports to fill with useful data.

In the meantime, you should do these two things right away to optimize the performance of your site.

1. Add your sitemap
   Adding a sitemap will make it much easier for Yandex to find all the pages on your website.

When you are inside the Yandex dashboard, take the following steps to upload your sitemap:

In the left sidebar, click “Indexing”
Click “Sitemap files”
Enter your sitemap URL
Click “Add”
Add a sitemap to Yandex webmaster tools
The sitemap will go into the processing queue, which can take a few days.

2. Set your geotargeting
   Yandex’s search results change drastically depending on the location of the searcher.

If you have a local business, you should make sure to tell Yandex which geographical area you are targeting.

If your website targets a global audience (like mine), then you can tell Yandex to disable geotargeting.

You can set your geotargeting options under Site Information -> Region. If you don’t want geotargeting, click “No geographic targeting.”

Here are instructions from Yandex about how to implement geotargeting correctly for your site.

Check back in a few days
There is nothing left to do but wait.

You should log in to Yandex webmaster tools in a few days to see whether the reports have started showing useful data.

Some interesting reports to check out include:

External links
Internal links
Site quality indicators
Search query statistics
Crawl statistics
Then there are many other reports and tools available, some of which are very helpful for SEO.

Conclusion

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