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Verify your website on Bing - how???
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lisa76
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I am trying to improve our listing on search engines etc and have gone into Bing Webmaster and added my website address. I then have to verify the web address by either doing something with an XML or a meta tag??!!!
I have no knowledge at all about websites - I have created one using the Microsoft Office free website builder, so therefore didn't have to do any programming etc.
How on earth do I verify my Bing listing?? Can you clever people explain in SIMPLE terms lol!!!!
I have no knowledge at all about websites - I have created one using the Microsoft Office free website builder, so therefore didn't have to do any programming etc.
How on earth do I verify my Bing listing?? Can you clever people explain in SIMPLE terms lol!!!!
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Bing should give you some code which you need to copy and paste into your webpage. In Office free website builder there should be somewhere where you can view the page source of the index.html page. Simply add the code that Bing gives you to the bottom of the source code and then save and upload.0
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Thanks Hammyman, will give that a go in a mo and if I get any trouble, I'll be back x0
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Who uses Bing these days?
You'll probably need to download the index.html page from the server via FTP, add the code in the <head> </head> section and re-upload back to the server.
I would say just ask your host to do it but Microsoft (well, not actually Microsoft as they don't run it) do not offer that service unless you are based in the US.
Personally, I wouldn't touch them with a bargepoll.Estate Agent, Web Designer & All Round Geek!0 -
I've been round and round the office live home website as well as all my pages and i can't find any 'coding' - i might have to leave this for now, far too complicated for me!!!
I do use Bing for all my searches - I much prefer it to google0 -
Why do you care how your website is ranked in Bing?
Most everybody uses Google to search. Surely you want to optimise your rankings there.....0 -
I'm just trying to get it anywhere to be honest, and looking at statistics Google is first then Bing then Yahoo for people coming to the site.
I don't understand any of this HTML stuff and meta tags to be honest. I've downloaded the google guide to SEO and it's absolute double dutch. I went through putting meta tags and descriptions on my pages last night, but not entirely sure I've done it right cos when I searched on google I couldn't find myself at all!!!!0 -
I'm just trying to get it anywhere to be honest, and looking at statistics Google is first then Bing then Yahoo for people coming to the site.
I don't understand any of this HTML stuff and meta tags to be honest. I've downloaded the google guide to SEO and it's absolute double dutch. I went through putting meta tags and descriptions on my pages last night, but not entirely sure I've done it right cos when I searched on google I couldn't find myself at all!!!!
Lesson No. 1 of changing your page with meta tags etc. - google won't realise you've changed your page until it looks at your page after you've changed it. If google hasn't looked at it between you changing the meta tags and then searching, you won't notice any difference. You changing something on your site and uploading it does not automatically change google's index - you have to wait for that.
What was the search term or search terms you used to find your page? Are these unique, or are there likely to be other pages competing for the same search terms? What are the most likely search terms people will use when looking for your product or service?
As an example, if you're in the pizza delivery business, there's little mileage in optimising your site for the term 'pizza express', since they're already established, and will likely get preference in google rankings over you.
Lesson No. 2 - google ranks your website by (amongst other things) judging it on the number of inbound links from other websites, on the basis that if other webmasters think you're worth linking to...... so if you can get related, relevant websites to link to yours, that will help.
You could consider google adwords (the 'sponsored listings' to the right and/or top of search results) to boost your traffic, and hence your ranking, but these will cost.0 -
I went through putting meta tags and descriptions on my pages last night, but not entirely sure I've done it right cos when I searched on google I couldn't find myself at all!!!!
It may take 6 weeks or so for Google to spider it, so it will not show up overnight
Depending what your site is about, enter the URL in the open directory project [dmoz] under "suggest url"
All the search engines will find it from there eventuallyEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
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Make sure that you also have a sitemap.xml file uploaded to your root. This will make Google crawl your site more often.Estate Agent, Web Designer & All Round Geek!0
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