Sonntag, 18. November 2012

Bing Announcing New Webmaster Guidelines

Yesterday, Bing announced new webmaster guidelines and webinars:
Bing Webmaster Center Blog.

For the guidelines, see here:
Bing Webmaster Guidelines.

Another great progress in Bing WMT.
I started (and continue) to prefer Bing WMT to Google WMT.

Google WMT are too faulty, it's annoying. Google's WMT
  • present me at least weekly errors in crawling that are no errors at all,
  • are not able to distinguish a 410 from a 404
  • show me old URLs that have been removed one and half years ago  and that are recorded in the htaccess with a Redirect Gone
  • tell me a soft 404 for the robots.txt in three websites (I'm not kidding)
  • show me statistics that are wrong and therefore not reliable
  • etc. etc.

I highly recommend to use Bing Webmaster Tools - they are very useful.
Apply here: Bing Webmaster Tools.