Bing's Webmaster Tools

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Like Google, Microsoft also has its own specific tools for webmaster. The truth is that almost a month after publishing the first post of ciudadblogger.info, indexing the same in Bing (Microsoft's search engine) is extremely poor, so try the tools proposed by Microsoft.

The first thing we do is to know the comparison of our site in the two search engines, it will use this tool bingle.nu which returns the search result in Bing and Google search engine simultaneously.

There are two ways to submit your site to Bing. The first is to use this simple form, where you enter the corresponding url and ready.

The second and most recommended method is using the Microsoft Webmaster Tools

Step 1. - Access to tools for Microsoft
Step 2. - Click on the "Sign in to use webmaster tool" (identification)
Step 3. - You must use a Windows Live ID (Hotmail)
Step 4. - Once inside, add the site indicating the URL of your blog
Step 5. - You should check it, ideally using HTML code for the HEAD section of the Blog: To insert this verification code, do the following:

    Go to the Template tab and click on Edit HTML button
    Search using Ctrl F or Ctrl B this line in the code: <b:skin> <! [CDATA [/ *
    Paste the code snippet you should get Bing tools just before the line you found in the previous step
    Save the template

Now and track expected within a week.

In this post I have explained the procedure for the case of Bing. In subsequent posts, we will deepen more. The truth is, that both criteria idexación search engines are not the same, although Google seems to "reward" blogs, not so with Bing. On the other hand we see that Google indexes each page, while Bing only follow the main page while using the free domain gives you Blogger, ie. Blogspot.com

How to create a custom robots.txt on blogger

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How to create a custom robots.txt on blogger

1) Log-in to your blogger account.
2) Go to your blog.
3) Now go to "Settings>Search Preferences"
4) Under the "Crawlers and indexing" you can find "Custom robots.txt"
5) Click "Edit" link.
Now you can add different Crawler to instructions. This post I added different useful crawl robots.txt codes. First we identify how this code works.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Above code,

User-agent: - Mention crawler name. For instance, Google bot.
Disallow: - Specify which pages should not crawl.
Allow: - Which pages crawl.
/ (slash):- indicate your home page.


Setup instructions for all robots

If you use above code, it will cause duplicate content issues and your site rank will be reduced. So that, you can use the following code. It will allow index and crawl entire blog but, not allow label and search pages.

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Block label and search pages crawling.

If you use above code, it will cause duplicate content issues and your site rank will be reduced. So that, you can use the following code. It will allow entire blog but, not allow crawl label and search pages.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /


Block certain page (s).

Some reasons, you many need to hide your selected page or pages from the search engines. At that time you can use the following code.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/page-one.html
Allow: /

To block more-than one page add their URL one by one on Disallow section like below.

User-agent: *
Disallow: /p/page-one.html
Disallow: /p/page-two.html
Allow: /

Allow all but block specific crawler.

To block single crawler, you can add the following code.

User-agent: <bot name>
Disallow: /

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow:

Setup AdSense crawler instruction.

If want to mprove your Google AdSense performances; you can specify how AdSense bot crawl your site. Actually there is no need to block anything.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

Block Images indexing.

If you don't like to see your blog post’s images on the Google search result, you can remove them by using the following code.

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /

If you need to block any-other bot crawl your site, use following code. However you need to add selected bot name in “User-agent:” section.

User-agent: <required crawler name>
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

You can find more crawlers and their user agent information in here and in here.

Adding site map.

Apart from above crawl instructions, you can add a sitemap. Normally blogger default sitemap provides 26 posts. So that you can add correct sitemap using "Custom robots.txt". This is an example of how to add a sitemap.

Sitemap: http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Sitemap: http://www.spiceupyourblog.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=501&max-results=1000

Final result demo.

To improve your blog's search engine visibility and crawl entire blog other than labels and search pages using the following code as your robots.txt.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: <your blog site map past here>