{"Status":true,"Message":"","Response":{"post":{"postuid":"c2e871fc-af2d-435f-8512-2d252d63902d","tenantuid":"d8b744fc-2e70-4089-bb80-dd1d08f6c7b2","projectuid":"fc6490ac-7527-4f49-b06e-46f701280e85","title":"Bing Webmaster Tools","slug":"article/bing-webmaster-tools","html":"\u003Cp\u003EWhether you use a subdomain provided by HelpGuides or your own domain, submit your sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools so Bing indexes your content.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2 id=\u0022why_submit_to_bing_webmaster_tools\u0022\u003EWhy submit to Bing Webmaster Tools?\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBing can only show your content in search results if it knows about it. Bing Webmaster Tools lets you submit a sitemap that Bing crawls regularly to keep its index of your content up to date. 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If it does, go to \u003Cb\u003ESettings\u003C/b\u003E \u2192 \u003Cb\u003EGeneral\u003C/b\u003E, turn on \u003Cb\u003EAllow Search Engine Indexing\u003C/b\u003E and click \u003Cb\u003EUpdate\u003C/b\u003E. This setting is off for new projects. \u003Ccode\u003Erobots.txt\u003C/code\u003E can take up to 3 hours to update.\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/article\u003E\u003C/section\u003E\u003Csection class=\u0022faq\u0022\u003E\u003Ch3\u003EI published an article, but Bing isn\u0027t indexing it\u003C/h3\u003E\u003Carticle\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECheck everything in the previous answer. Then make sure the article\u0027s status is \u003Cb\u003EPublished\u003C/b\u003E and that \u003Cb\u003EAllow Indexing\u003C/b\u003E is on for the article: in the editor, click \u003Cb\u003EAdvanced\u003C/b\u003E and open the \u003Cb\u003ESEO\u003C/b\u003E tab. \u003Cb\u003EAllow Indexing\u003C/b\u003E is on by default for every article. New articles can take a few days to appear in Bing.\u003C/p\u003E\u003C/article\u003E\u003C/section\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERelated: \u003Ca href=\u0022/article/structured-data\u0022\u003EStructured Data\u003C/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022/article/finding-broken-links-with-the-seo-report\u0022\u003EFinding Broken Links with the SEO Report\u003C/a\u003E.\u003C/p\u003E\r\n\u003Cscript type=\u0022application/ld\u002Bjson\u0022\u003E\r\n{\r\n  \u0022@context\u0022: \u0022https://schema.org\u0022,\r\n  \u0022@type\u0022: \u0022FAQPage\u0022,\r\n  \u0022mainEntity\u0022: [\r\n{\r\n    \u0022@type\u0022: \u0022Question\u0022,\r\n    \u0022name\u0022: \u0022Bing won\u0027t index my content\u0022,\r\n    \u0022acceptedAnswer\u0022: {\r\n    \u0022@type\u0022: \u0022Answer\u0022,\r\n    \u0022text\u0022: \u0022Open /robots.txt on your site and check that it doesn\u0027t say Disallow: / . If it does, go to Settings \u2192 General , turn on Allow Search Engine Indexing and click Update . 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