Validate and submit a sitemap to Bing via Bing Webmaster Tools API
domain: bing-webmaster-tools · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Verify your site in Bing Webmaster Tools by adding the verification meta tag to your homepage or uploading the XML verification file to your server root
Generate an API key in the API Access section of Bing Webmaster Tools settings
Call the SubmitSitemap endpoint of the Bing Webmaster API with your apikey parameter and the full URL of your sitemap or sitemap index as the request body
Call GetSitemaps to confirm Bing has received and processed the sitemap, checking the status fields for any parsing errors
Re-submit the sitemap whenever you publish a major batch of new pages; Bing does not automatically re-fetch sitemaps on a fixed schedule
Known gotchas
Bing Webmaster Tools treats each subdomain and protocol variant as a separate site; a sitemap submitted under https://www.example.com does not automatically apply to https://example.com or http://www.example.com
Bing's sitemap parser validates XML structure strictly; a single malformed tag or encoding error will cause the entire sitemap to fail silently with no crawl activity resulting from the submission
The Bing Webmaster API uses an API key appended as a query parameter rather than a header-based Bearer token in many endpoints; review the specific endpoint documentation because some newer endpoints use OAuth 2.0 instead
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