Travel Blog Diary: Week 20 — Looking into Bing Webmaster Tools
Here’s what happened in the twentieth week of my travel blog journey, where I took a closer look at my Bing search data and uncovered a few interesting insights.
Last week I wrote about my Las Vegas trip and signed up for Bing Webmaster Tools. This week I looked more into my data on the tool. As I hypothesized a month ago, most of my impressions are from my most niche post, Expendio de Maiz Review. It has an average position of 8, which makes it visible on the first page! Interestingly, Bing Webmaster Tools also has a new AI performance tab, and it looks like the post even got cited by Microsoft Copilots and Partners a few times! I resubmitted the sitemap to Google, hopefully they can get this post indexed soon.
I am pleasantly surprised by Bing Webmaster Tools. It has indexed more pages than Google Search Console, and provides more insights like suggested keywords and AI performance. Even though the AI performance section is still in Beta and doesn’t have a lot of data yet, just knowing which of my pages are being cited is useful. I learned that my best performing post in search is also the one cited the most by AI. As a result, I will focus on niche topics going forward.
Come back next week to see what niche topics I write about!
Comments
3 responses
Moussa
Good insight, and in hindsight it makes sense. Niche means content that is more unique. Can’t wait to see what you come up with. ❤️
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