Bing search on the smartphone. (Photo: Piotr Swat / Shutterstock.com)
Microsoft has introduced a WordPress plugin that automatically includes your pages in the Bing index immediately after publication. The software is open source and could therefore also serve as a template for other CMS.
A new WordPress plugin from Microsoft ensures that your pages are indexed by the Bing search engine immediately after publication. The whole process runs automatically. After installing the plugin, all you have to do is get an API key from Bing and the setup is complete. You can get the API key either directly via the settings of the WordPress plugin or manually via the Webmaster portal of the search engine.
The WordPress plugin from Bing shows you, among other things, which pages were last indexed. You can also view any error messages via the plugin. Up to 10,000 URLs can be submitted for indexing every day via the Bing API. If that’s not enough, the Bing webmaster team must write to them and ask for an increase in the limit.
Bing: WordPress plugin is open source
Microsoft has the Source code of the plugin released on GitHub under the free GPL license. The company hopes that developers of other content management systems (CMS) will use the plugin as a template to integrate it into their CMS.
According to Netmarketshare, Bing is the second most used search engine worldwide, at least on the desktop, at 13 percent. For comparison: Google has more than 70 percent. It looks much worse for Bing in the mobile sector. According to Netmarketshare, Bing does not even have a one percent market share on the smartphone and comes in fourth place after Google, the Chinese search engine Baidu and the internet oldie Yahoo.
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