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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Bing Add a Site Tool Is Down

Microsoft has confirmed an issue related to its tool for webmasters, indicating that the addition of new websites to its decision/search engine is not functioning momentarily. According to the Redmond company, the Add a Site option is not working for various localized versions of Bing. I have just tried it and can confirm that webmasters that have Bing configured in accordance with their specific location won’t be able introduce new websites for Bing to start indexing. Even after I changed the location settings to the United
States, I was still unable to add a website.

“As some of you may have experienced, our “add a site” page has been unavailable in some locals for the past several days. This is not a site-wide or even global issue. Unfortunately, this happened due to an update that uncovered a bug in the original code which caused us to disable the page in one of our Data Centers,” revealed Brett Yount, Bing Webmaster Center.

As a general rule of search engine optimization (SEO) webmasters introduce newly launched websites into search engines in order to streamline the indexing process. Ensuring that a certain site is indexed means enabling end users to easily find it via queries introduced into search engines. Of course, SEO is actually immensely more complicated than simply making sure that websites are indexed. However, adding a website to a search engine is perhaps the most common interaction task that webmasters must perform with services offered by Bing, Yahoo, Google and others.

“Good news is, we are testing a fix and will be releasing it to production as soon as we are sure it will not cause further complications. I will [provide an] update as soon as I receive word that the fix is in production. On behalf of all of us here at Bing, we would like to extend our apologies and thank you for your continued patience,” Yount added.

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