Ping MSNbots To Index A Web Page

Microsoft Bing is a popular Search engine and has the potential to bring traffic to your website.

So, we must inform Bing about the latest changes on your websites and blogs.

Bing provides different options to inform them of the recent changes on our websites.

One of the most impressive methods is the direct ping method. You can submit and ping your website sitemap to Bing without logging into the Webmaster tools account. It takes less than ten seconds to ping your website sitemap to let Bing know the recent changes on your website. It will help Bing Spiders (MSNBot) crawl your website and index the changes soon.

Another method is to submit newly added or changed pages in Bing Webmaster Tools directly.

We can inform Bing about the changes on a web page with the IndexNow feature in the Webmaster Tools Account.

This tutorial on CoreNetworkZ explains both.

Microsoft Bing provides an easy way to ping your website for MSNBot.

1. Type one of the following codes on the address bar of your web browser.

   
   
   
   • http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=
     
     
   • http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=
   
   
   
   
2. After the "=" sign, type your sitemap URL.
   
   It should be like http://www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=[your sitemap web address]
   
   
3. Press the enter key after completing the code.
   
   
4. Explanation
   

   X.com is the domain name of my website. To ping this website (for MSNBots), I should type the following code on the browser address bar.

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

For example, if I want to Ping my blog for Bing spiders, I should type the following code on a web browser.

www.bing.com/ping?sitemap=http://www.corenetworkz.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

You can use the Atom feeds as the sitemap for Blogspot blogs.

The second method to tell Bing bots to index newly added pages on our websites is to submit page URLs directly in Bing Webmaster Tools.

The following message from Bing Webmaster Tools explains it.

Steps to submit your website URLs to use Bing URL submit feature.

1. Log in to Bing Webmaster Tools
   

   You can use the following URL to log in to the Bing Webmaster tools account.

   
   https://www.bing.com/webmasters/about
   
   
2. Click Configure My Site link.
   
   
   
3. Click Submit URLs
   
   

4. Enter the URLs of the pages you want Bing Search Engine to index.

   
   
   
   

   Click Submit to get indexed by Bing Spiders.

You have learned two different methods to ping your blog for Bing spiders. Out of these two methods, my favorite was method one.

In the first method, we do not need to log in to Bing webmaster tools.

We can directly ping the sitemap from a browser, and Bing spiders start crawling the entire website by reading the URLs listed in the sitemap.

However, if I want to inform Bing about a changed page, I use the second method.

One negative side of this method is the daily quota of URLs.

Microsoft Bing increased the maximum number of links to submit per day recently.