Now that Bing and Yahoo are teaming up with search, having your web site optimized for Microsoft’s new search engine is even more important.  While browsing through some of Bing’s webmaster documentation, I found a way you an submit your sitemap to them – in one single easy step.

All you need to do is copy and paste this into your address bar, replacing the sitemap URL path with your own.

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml

If done successfully, you will get a message that says, “Thanks for submitting your sitemap”. 

For those of you who like to keep up with more data, you can also submit your site map to Bing by signing up or logging into the Bing Webmaster Tools section.  From there you can get access to more tools, like the keyword research tool, the HTTP verifier, and the robots.txt validator. 

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Submit Your Web Site to Microsoft Bing
• What is My SERP?
• Make it Easier for Google Searchers to Find You!

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Want to know how you can get more information about how Microsoft’s new Bing search crawls your web sites?  You could easily submit your domain name to their webmaster tools section.  How do you do that?  Let me show you.

First, you will want to go to the webmaster tools page, and login using your MSN login information.  (Yes, even I forgot I had a Hotmail account!).

Once you login, here is what things look like:

As you can see you can easily add your e-mail address, web site address and sitemap address.  Once you do that, you have several different ways you can verify your ownership of the web site you submit.  Much like Google’s and Yahoo!’s webmaster tools, you can embed some code, or download a file to upload to your web site. 

Once you get that done, then you should get a profile for your domain:

They provide a lot of good information that will give you details on how your domain is being crawled by Bing.  You get your site status, crawl issues, backlinks, outbound links, a keyword tool and more.  I also look forward to seeing what else they add here to catch up with Google’s webmaster tools service – as it is the current leader of the pack. 

Related Tips and Tricks:

• Weekend Project – Create a Google-Friendly Sitemap
• Search More with SearchMerge
• Search the Lunarforums via Firefox

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