How to setup Auto Indexing on Bing

Are you tired of waiting for Microsoft Bing to index your website? Looking to get your website indexed by Bing ASAP? Well, you are in the right place. With Indexly, you can set up automated indexing on Bing in just minutes.

With Auto indexing, as soon as you publish a new web page on your site, Indexly will submit the newly added page for indexing on Bing – resulting in your page getting indexed usually within 24-48 hours. Why wait, let's get started.

Step 1 - Create an account

Go ahead and sign up for an Indexly account. You can do so by browsing the signup page https://indexly.ai/login and clicking on Login with Google. Indexly will automatically sync all your websites from Google Search Console to your account.

Step 2 - Enable your sites

Once you have successfully logged in to your account, you should see a full list of all Domain Properties and URL Properties that you can access within your Google Search Console account. You will also notice the permissions your account has to these sites, As long as you have either Full User or Owner permission you can use the site with Indexly.

Toggle the Switch next to your site to enable it on Indexly. As you can see in the above screenshot, we have enabled the Indexly domain property. You will observe, that Indexly syncs your sitemaps. This is to confirm all your sitemaps from the Google Search Console have been pulled in.

Step 3 - Authorize Indexly to index pages on Bing

In the Setup screen, under the Setup Search Engines section, click on the Bing icon.

Once you click on the Bing logo, you shall see a popup detailing the steps you need to take to verify your site with Indexly. You can see the steps in the below screenshot.

Here are the steps you need to follow -

1. To verify your site with Indexly you need to host a text file on your domain, in this example, the file is "4d852697bdd34e13931e09b01b8db43b.txt". You can download this file by clicking on the Download button.
2. You need to host this file on the root of your domain. For example, in Wordpress you can SFTP to your Wordpress instance and copy the file to the root folder where Wordpress is hosted. Please follow similar instructions for other hosting platforms.
3. Once done, click on the Verify Setup button. Indexly will check if the URL [https://yourdomain.com/4d852697bdd34e13931e09b01b8db43b.txt] works and that the content of the file is 4d852697bdd34e13931e09b01b8db43b.

Step 4 - You are now set for Auto Indexing

Every time you publish a new page on your site, your sitemap will get updated. Indexly automatically checks your sitemaps, finds new pages, and submits them to Bing, thereby reducing human effort/errors and time to get indexed.

Here's what the email notification looks like when a new webpage is discovered and submitted for indexing by Indexly.

Step 5 - You are done!

Great job! You've successfully enabled your site (s) for auto-indexing. It typically takes up to 24 hours for the pages to be indexed. All of these steps usually take less than 5 minutes, so go ahead and get indexing 😃

Supercharge your SEO with Indexly

It usually takes a few weeks for a Google bot to crawl and index your website's pages. However, Indexly can simplify this process by automatically checking your sitemaps, finding new pages, and submitting them to Google Search Console.

This reduces human effort and errors and significantly improves indexing time. When your website's pages are indexed, they rank higher on search engines, ultimately boosting organic traffic.

Log in to Indexly with your Google account from Step 1 and set up your website for auto-indexing now!