type: service
status: active
timestamp: 2026-06-20
tags: [seo, bing, microsoft, search-console, primary]

Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing sitemap submission + index monitoring + IndexNow key management

Bing Webmaster Tools

Role

Bing’s equivalent of Google Search Console:

Submits sitemaps to Bing’s crawler
Reports index coverage + crawl errors
Surfaces query analytics for Bing + DuckDuckGo (DDG uses Bing’s index)
Manages the IndexNow key (the same key Microsoft owns the protocol on; Bing’s console is the canonical surface to register it). See services/monitoring/monitoring/seo/indexnow.md.

The Yandex / Naver crawlers indirectly benefit too via IndexNow.

Free tier

Unlimited sites
One-click import from Google Search Console (saves manual property setup for every subdomain)
Sitemap submission, index coverage, query analytics
IndexNow key registration + history

Card / subscription required?

NO. Microsoft account; no card.

Setup

Sign in with the same Google account used for GSC.
Use the Import from Google Search Console flow to bring all *.oriz.in properties over in one shot.
Submit each subdomain’s sitemap-index.xml.
Generate IndexNow key, host at https://<site>/<key>.txt.

Alternatives

Skip Bing — works, but loses ~7% of search traffic + the DuckDuckGo overlap + IndexNow’s canonical surface.

Swap cost

Zero — read-only console. Removing it changes nothing on the sites.

Why this is our pick

Bing covers ~7% of US search traffic and powers DuckDuckGo’s index. Free, one-click GSC import, and the canonical IndexNow key surface all for the same Microsoft account.

Cross-refs

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