Site settings
Manage sites, verification, users, URL parameters, blocked URLs, preview blocks, geo-targeting, deep-link blocks, and crawl rate with bwt.
Every command on this page that changes Bing state is blocked by --read-only, and --dry-run
prints its request without sending it.
Sites
bwt sites list # use these URLs exactly in other commands
bwt sites add https://www.example.com/
bwt sites verify https://www.example.com/ # after adding the XML file, meta tag, or DNS record
bwt sites use https://www.example.com/ # the profile's default site (local only)
bwt sites remove https://old.example.com/sites list -o json includes each site's AuthenticationCode and DnsVerificationCode for
verification. sites verify prints verified: false when Bing could not confirm ownership.
Users and roles
bwt users list --all-subdomains
bwt users add colleague@example.com --role read-only
bwt users remove colleague@example.comRoles are admin, read-only, and read-write. --delegated-url targets a host under the site.
URL parameters
Query parameters Bing should ignore when normalizing URLs:
bwt params list
bwt params add sessionid
bwt params disable sessionid # or: enable, removeBlocked URLs and previews
bwt block list
bwt block add https://www.example.com/private/ --type directory --request cache-only
bwt block remove https://www.example.com/private/
bwt preview-blocks list
bwt preview-blocks add https://www.example.com/page --reason 1
bwt preview-blocks remove https://www.example.com/pageblock add has no default --request: cache-only removes the cached copy, and full-removal
removes the URL from Bing results until it expires (and asks for confirmation). Microsoft does not
publish the preview --reason values; 1 is ContentNeedsToBeRemoved.
Geo-targeting and deep links
bwt geo list
bwt geo add --url https://www.example.com/uk/ --type directory --country gb
bwt geo remove --url https://www.example.com/uk/ --type directory --country gb
bwt deeplink-blocks list
bwt deeplink-blocks add --market en-US --search-url https://www.example.com/ \
--deep-link-url https://www.example.com/old-pageBing accepts only lowercase country and market codes; bwt lowercases them for you.
Connected pages
bwt connected-pages list
bwt connected-pages add https://social.example.com/your-profileCrawl rate and boost
bwt crawl settings
bwt crawl set-settings --boost on
bwt crawl set-settings --rate 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,6,6,6,5,4,3,3,4set-settings reads the current settings, applies your change, and saves the full object. --rate
takes 24 hourly values; Bing does not document their valid range or timezone.
Site moves (experimental)
bwt experimental site-move list
bwt experimental site-move submit --from https://old.example.com/ --to https://www.example.com/ \
--scope host --type globalBing still documents these methods, but GetSiteMoves returned HTTP 404 in a live check. Each run
prints a notice; confirm the result in the Bing Webmaster Tools dashboard.