Google run an excellent Google Search Console Help Forum which is the best way to get help for this, and Bing has a similar Bing Webmaster Tools Help & How-To Center. You can get details of who's visiting you site, what search terms are bringing them there, what broken links you have on your site (maybe a typo somewhere which is preventing your page being discovered!), any security issues on your website and any messages Google and Bing want to tell you about your site. Once you have registered your site, and left them for a week to gather data, it starts to get interesting. Like Google Search Console, it will take at least a week for Bing to gathering the data on your site. Bing also reverifies ownership periodically and removes access if it can't do this, so best to verify ownership with a BingSiteAuth.xml file and just leave it on the server. Then comes the tough bit as you need to wait at least a week for anything interesting to show up in there.įor Bing webmaster tools you only need to verify the one version of your site. You will do most of your work in the one site after initial set up but it's good to register them all so you get alerted to any issues with any of them.įor Google Search Console, you should set the version of the website you prefer (with or without the And finally you should register an XML sitemap. For this site, it meant registering, , and - despite the fact that all sites are the same and the first 3 redirect to the last version. Google treats each variant of your website differently so you should register all the versions. This is the most difficult part of setting this up, but only needs to be done once, and after that you can add other users without this hassle.
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This can be done in one of several ways including adding a bit of code to your home page, adding a special file to your website or adding a DNS record. You will then be asked to prove ownership of the website you are trying to register. You will need a Google or Microsoft account (note these do not need to be a Gmail or Hotmail e-mail accounts and you can use your current e-mail address and even use the same e-mail address for both).
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These free tools are the best way Google and Bing have to talk directly to you if they notice issues with your site so all website owners should set them up or you are missing out on an easy opportunity to find out any issues with your website. Google and Bing both provide tools which allow you to submit your website to the search engine, and also customise how it should be searched and monitor any issues. This page was originally created on 2 and last edited on 2.
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