This presentation is for the Eshopbox owners to submit a sitemap to bing.

1. How to submit a sitemap
to Bing
Category: Store Promotion
Eshopbox Wiki for Store Owners

2. Welcome to Eshopbox Wiki
What you will learn here
▪ What does a sitemap mean
▪ Why should one submit a sitemap to Bing
▪ How to submit a sitemap to Bing
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3. 1
What does a sitemap mean
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4. What does a Sitemap mean
▪ A sitemap is a list of all the pages of a web site accessible to search
engine crawlers and users
▪ It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web
design or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, organized in
hierarchical fashion
▪ It contains links to all the pages on the site
▪ It has 2 formats- HTML and XML
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5. 2
Why should one submit a
sitemap to Bing
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6. Why should one submit a sitemap to Bing
▪ Sitemaps are submitted with the purpose of making sure that all the
pages of your site get indexed by Bing, including URLs that may not be
discoverable otherwise
▪ Sitemaps are helpful if your site pages contains heavy images or
dynamic content that cannot be discovered easily by Bing search engine
▪ Sitemaps are useful especially in case of a new site, which has a few
links connected to it
▪ Majority of internet users use Bing as their search tool in comparison to
others
▪ Submitting the sitemap to Bing speeds up the discovery process and
provides better search results
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7. 3
How to submit a sitemap to
Bing
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8. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
Step 1:
▪ Log in to your Eshopbox site admin panel with your login id and password
▪ Click on the ‘Promote’ tab and select ‘SEO suite’ from the drop down
menu
Promote tab
SEO suite link
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9. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
Step 2:
▪ After opening the SEO suite page, select the ‘Verify Store With Bing’ link
under the ‘SEARCH ENGINE’ option available under ‘SEO suite’ menu
SEO suite menu
Search engine link
Submit store sitemap to Bing
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10. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
Step 3:
▪ Go to http://bing.com/webmaster
▪ Login with your Windows Live ID and password
▪ In order to submit your sitemap with Bing webmaster, your store must
be verified with Bing webmaster first
Bing webmaster sign in
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11. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
Step 4:
▪ Go to Bing webmasters dashboard and click crawl from the top
navigation
▪ Now click the ‘sitemap’ link and select your site URL from the drop
down menu
▪ Click ‘Add Feed’ to submit your store sitemap to Bing
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12. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
Step 5:
▪ Eshopbox creates your store sitemap in XML as your site goes live
▪ Your store XML sitemap is located at ‘sitemap.xml’
▪ Add the XML sitemap path of your store URL by entering ‘sitemap.xml’
in the prescribed field
▪ Click on the ‘submit’ button
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13. How to submit a sitemap to Bing
▪ Your store sitemap has been successfully submitted to Bing
▪ Now all the pages of your store will be indexed with Bing webmaster
automatically
▪ It will improve the page and search ranking of your site pages
▪ Bing will check the sitemap and start indexing your site as soon as it
has determined that the site has no errors
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14. Good to know
▪ You can set a priority and last modification date on your important
pages to ensure regular crawling
▪ Keywords will get more prominence and more search results for your
Eshopbox site
▪ In order to submit a sitemap of your Eshopbox site, you will have to
verify your store first
▪ View our ‘How to verify your Eshopbox site with Bing’ wiki to
understand the steps required for the verification
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15. For More Support
Wiki : A collection of illustrative presentations which will guide you in a
step by step manner to answer your store related queries
Knowledgebase : A repository of detailed articles that provide you with in
depth information about running your store and understanding the process
involved
Forum : An open community for Store owners to share and discuss
everything about Eshopbox. Get real and practical solutions to most of
your problems
Blog : A rich source of Tips, Articles and Announcements that keep you
updated about the latest happening and techniques to enhance your art of
selling online
Ask a question : Find simple answers to complex questions through our
experts. For any further assistance, mail us at support@eshopbox.com
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