Bing (MSN) Webmaster Site Verification and Features

Sunday, 05. 29. 2011  –  Category: On-Page Optimization, SEO Process

Verifying your Website for MSN Webmaster

Webmasters and website owners have been taking advantage of the benefits using MSN webmaster tool. To begin using the tool, you must submit your website to msn search engine. This is important so MSN can begin indexing your website for free.

An msn username and password is necessary for to login to msn webmaster tools. You can then now add your website and give the location of your sitemap. This will guarantee that all the contents of the WebPages of your website will be recognized by MSN.

MSN Webmaster tools is also known as Bing Webmaster tools. Remember that before you add your website, you would need to directly add a xml file (LiveSearchSiteAuth.xml) in your web server root. By adding your website to webmaster central for the first time, you will be provided with the contents of xml file. You simply have to copy then paste it in a notepad or any text editor you prefer. Save the notepad naming it “LiveSearchSiteAuth.xml”. This will serve as the xml file you should put into the root directory of your web server. MSN Webmaster verification of your site is necessary for you to optimize your site for MSN search engine.

Features

After adding your website by entering the domain name and add either a META tag or XML file to the root of the server. You can now proceed to checking out the features of your MSN webmaster tools. Once there, you will see 5 tabs consisting of Summary, Profile, Keywords, Top links from, Top links to and Sitemap.

Summary

The Summary tab provides a quick overview of your domains current standing in MSN. You will find out the most recent date that MSNbot crawled your site. You will also see your domain rank and the number of pages MSN has recently indexed. You will also be informed if you ever you have been banned. You will also see the your Top 5 pages.

Profile

Profile tab allows you to add the sitemap, change verification methods and change your contact email address.

Keywords

MSN will ask you to enter a keyword and then it would review how this page performs in search results against specific keywords. You will then get the most relevant pages within this domain name in response to the query.

Top links from and Top links to

As the tab suggests, this will provide you with the performance of your back links for top links from. You will see a list of 10 URLs under the Top links to tab. The 10 are the best performing in Live Search.

Sitemap

This tab allows you to enter your sitemap URL into a field for the MSNbot to crawl.

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