Today we will learn how to add blogger sitemap to bing and yahoo webmaster tools. but before we go forward, I want to tell that sitemap submission to Yahoo was done by using Yahoo Site Explorer. But last year (21/11/2011) Yahoo Sitemap Explorer service completely transferred to Bing Webmaster Tools with a partnership agreement. This means you will get traffic to your site from both Yahoo and Bing by submitting your sitemap to only Bing Webmaster Tools.
ALSO READ: How To Submit Blog URL To Bing?
We already published a tutorial about the sitemap submission to Google Webmaster Tools.
Steps to submit blog address to Bing
1. Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account. This will required a live or hotmail email ID. If you don’t have please sign up for hotmail account.
2. After logging in click Add site and write your blog URL and in Add a sitemap box paste as following:
Blogger Atom Feed URL looks like...
3. Now you have to verify that you are the real owner of your blog. There are three methods to verify ownership. I recommended you to choose second option. I am sure this is so easy way to verify ownership. Copy the following code as shown at below:
Now let’s verify ownership…
1. Sign in to blogger blog
2. Click on your blog title
3. Click Template from left side menu
4. Backup your full template before any change
5. Click Edit HTML, Click Proceed
6. Search for <head> by pressing Ctrl+F
7. Now paste the code at below <head> tag which you have copied from Bing Webmaster Tools.
8. Click Save Template to done.
Now go to Bing and click VERIFY button at bottom. That’s all.
Now wait for at most 5 days to show results from Bing and Yahoo search engines.
If your blog don’t show at Bing and Yahoo search engine results after waiting 5 days, then PING them. To do this, follow these steps…
Ping to Bing and Yahoo
See below links, these are ping URLs for Bing according to posts quantity.
Now copy these links and paste them in your browser address bar one by one. Replace www.shinemat.com with your own link.
Press Enter. After a while you will see a confirmation message.
If your posts between One to Five Hundred (1-500)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1%26max-results%3D500
If your posts between Five Hundred one to One Thousand (501-1000)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D501%26max-results%3D500
If your posts between One Thousand One to One Thousand Five Hundred (1001-1500)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1001%26max-results%3D500
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Conclusion
I have tried my label best to make this tutorial easy for everyone. If you have any problem please feel free to ask me. Best of luck, Have fun!
ALSO READ: How To Submit Blog URL To Bing?
We already published a tutorial about the sitemap submission to Google Webmaster Tools.
Steps to submit blog address to Bing
1. Sign in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account. This will required a live or hotmail email ID. If you don’t have please sign up for hotmail account.
2. After logging in click Add site and write your blog URL and in Add a sitemap box paste as following:
Blogger Atom Feed URL looks like...
http://www.YOUR-BLOG-URL.com/atom.xml
3. Now you have to verify that you are the real owner of your blog. There are three methods to verify ownership. I recommended you to choose second option. I am sure this is so easy way to verify ownership. Copy the following code as shown at below:
Now let’s verify ownership…
1. Sign in to blogger blog
2. Click on your blog title
3. Click Template from left side menu
4. Backup your full template before any change
5. Click Edit HTML, Click Proceed
6. Search for <head> by pressing Ctrl+F
7. Now paste the code at below <head> tag which you have copied from Bing Webmaster Tools.
8. Click Save Template to done.
Now go to Bing and click VERIFY button at bottom. That’s all.
Now wait for at most 5 days to show results from Bing and Yahoo search engines.
If your blog don’t show at Bing and Yahoo search engine results after waiting 5 days, then PING them. To do this, follow these steps…
Ping to Bing and Yahoo
See below links, these are ping URLs for Bing according to posts quantity.
Now copy these links and paste them in your browser address bar one by one. Replace www.shinemat.com with your own link.
Press Enter. After a while you will see a confirmation message.
Thanks for submitting your sitemap.
If your posts between One to Five Hundred (1-500)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1%26max-results%3D500
If your posts between Five Hundred one to One Thousand (501-1000)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D501%26max-results%3D500
If your posts between One Thousand One to One Thousand Five Hundred (1001-1500)
http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.shinemat.com%2Fatom.xml%3Fredirect%3Dfalse%26start-index%3D1001%26max-results%3D500
That's All.
Also Read:
Conclusion
I have tried my label best to make this tutorial easy for everyone. If you have any problem please feel free to ask me. Best of luck, Have fun!
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