Import sites from Search Console to Bing Webmaster Tools

At Bing Webmaster Tools we actively listen to the needs of the webmasters. Verifying a website’s ownership has been reported as a major pain-point in Bing Webmaster Tools. To simplify this process, we recently introduced a new method for webmasters to verify sites in Bing Webmaster Tools. Webmasters can now import their verified sites from Google Search Console into Bing Webmaster Tools. The imported sites will be auto-verified thus eliminating  the need for going through the manual verification process.

Both Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console use similar methods to verify the ownership of a website. Using this new functionality, webmasters can log into their Google Search Console account and import all the verified sites and their corresponding sitemaps to their Bing Webmaster Tools account.

Webmasters just need to follow 4 simple steps to import their site:

Step 1: Sign-in to your Bing Webmaster Tools account or create a new one here

Step 2: Navigate to My Sites page on Bing Webmaster Tools and click Import

Step 3: Sign-in with your Google Search Console account and click Allow to give Bing Webmaster Tools access to your list of verified sites and sitemaps

Step 4: After authentication, Bing Webmaster Tools will display the list of verified sites present in your Google Search Console account along with the number of Sitemaps and corresponding role for each site. Select the sites which you want to add to Bing Webmaster Tools and click Import

Webmasters can import multiple sites from multiple Google Search Console accounts. On successful completion, the selected sites will be added and automatically verified in Bing Webmaster Tools. Please note that it might take up to 48 hours to get traffic data for the newly verified websites.

Maximum 100 websites can be imported in one go. Please follow the above steps again in case you want to add more than 100 sites to add the sites that have not been added already. Also, the limit of 1000 sites addition per Bing Webmaster Tools account still applies.

Bing Webmaster Tools will periodically validate your site ownership status by syncing with your Google Search Console account. Therefore, it is necessary for your Bing Webmaster Tools account to have ongoing access to your Google Search Console account. If access to your Google Search Console account is revoked, you will then have to either import your sites again or verify your sites using other verification methods.

We hope that both Import from Google Search Console and Domain Connect verification method will make the onboarding process easier for webmasters. We encourage you to sign up and leverage Bing Webmaster tools to help drive more users to your sites.

We want to hear from you!  As a reminder, you can always reach out to us and share feedback on Twitter and Facebook. If you encounter issues using this solution, please raise a service ticket with our support team.

Thanks!
Bing Webmaster Tools team
 
Source: Bing Blog Feed