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BlueEyes82

8:46 am on Jul 26, 2024 (gmt 0)

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Hello,

how or where in the Bing Webmaster Tools can you submit a change to the domain address to Bing. I just find old information that is no longer valid. I can no longer find this function in the tools.

Thanks!

lucy24

4:07 pm on Jul 26, 2024 (gmt 0)

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Well, ###. Last time I moved sites, I was pleased to see that Bing--unlike G--had an additional option for redirecting only certain directories, rather than the whole site. (Ideal for me, because I moved six of eight directories to a new domain.) Do they no longer do this?

BlueEyes82

9:30 pm on Jul 26, 2024 (gmt 0)

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I've searched everything, but maybe I'm blind. Can you or someone tell me exactly where I can access this via the menu of a website?

lucy24

11:23 pm on Jul 26, 2024 (gmt 0)

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My bad.

It's not you. I haven't been to Bing’s WMT page in--literally--years, and had to go refresh my memory. (Whereupon I find, hilariously, that there is no need to dig up my password, because one of their signin options is ... wait for it ... Google. wtf?)

After searching in vain for the Site Move function, I consulted The Search Engine That Is Not Called Bing, leading to this rather priceless line from a disgruntled user of the Microsoft Community Hub [techcommunity.microsoft.com]:
Rather than admitting that Bing has taken down yet another useful tool for webmasters, you simply try to redirect us to an FAQ page that does not answer the question OP asked
This comes at the very end of a thread, and I must say Google has accurately chosen the most relevant page snippet ;)

<tangent>
As long as I was there, I looked at their "top insights" and found that they complain bitterly about (1) many pages having too-short titles--but can’t be bothered to show the titles they don’t like (do they think the <title> is supposed to contain the full text of the "content" meta?), (2) Missing or Undiscovered Sitemap*, while giving no reason to suppose there is any part of the site they couldn’t find, (3) meta robots "noindex" tag on, wait for it, pages I don’t want indexed, (4) and lastly "IndexNow not adopted", which I can't even be bothered to investigate.

Phooey. I can dimly recall a time when Bing’s webmaster tools were in some ways better than G’s.
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* In fact I used to have sitemaps, but took them down because it wasn't worth keeping them up-to-date when every part of every site is readily discoverable by humans.