Verify a site in Bing Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap via the Bing Webmaster Tools API
domain: bing.com/webmasters · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Create a Bing Webmaster Tools account, add your site, and verify ownership using one of the supported methods: XML file upload, meta tag placement, or CNAME DNS record
Generate a Bing Webmaster API key from the Webmaster Tools dashboard under 'API Access'
To submit a sitemap via the API, make a POST request to 'https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc/json/SubmitSitemap?apikey={key}' with a JSON body: '{"siteUrl": "https://example.com/", "sitemapUrl": "https://example.com/sitemap.xml"}'
To retrieve submitted sitemaps, call GET 'https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc/json/GetSitemaps?apikey={key}&siteUrl={encoded-site-url}'
Combine Bing Webmaster Tools sitemap submission with IndexNow for the most comprehensive Bing indexing coverage — sitemaps for discovery, IndexNow for freshness
Monitor the 'Crawl' section of Bing Webmaster Tools for crawl errors that may not be visible in Google Search Console
Known gotchas
The Bing Webmaster Tools API uses a different authentication model than Google — it requires an API key passed as a query parameter, not OAuth2; store the key securely
Bing requires the site to be fully verified before the API will accept sitemap submissions; a 401 or 403 response usually means verification is incomplete or the API key does not match the verified site
Bing Webmaster Tools data lags Google Search Console by several days and does not provide query-level impression data at the same granularity — use it for crawl diagnostics and Bing-specific issues, not as a primary analytics source
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