Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools recently released Site Explorer, which offers unique features for SEO pros. Here’s how to make the most out of it.

Last month, the Microsoft Bing Webmaster Tools team released Site Explorer.

This new powerful SEO tool offers webmasters a unique view of how Microsoft Bing sees your site.

You can filter all your URLs in a file explorer-like fashion, including:

• Indexed URLs.
• URLs that are redirecting.
• URLs that are blocked by robots.txt.

This tool, which is not offered yet by other major engines, allows webmasters to explore and optimize their websites for all search engines.

From Index Explorer to Site Explorer

The previous version of Bing Webmaster Tools included a tool named Index Explorer which offered a subset of Site Explorer data and features.

However, Index Explorer had two flaws:

• As the tool was built by geeks for geeks, it became too complex for most SEO pros. There were many options and filters that did not help them understand and prioritize their SEO tasks.
• Slow and occasionally timed out for large web sites. When it was first developed many years ago, it was not meant to accommodate large websites with thousands of pages.

When we decided to refresh the Bing Webmaster Tools, we knew from listening to feedback and speaking with webmasters that significant investments were needed to improve Index Explorer.

We also had to deliver a useful SEO experience for webmasters.

Thus, the new Bing Webmaster Tools is based on key principles of:

• A cleaner and more responsive design.
• A faster portal with more actionable data.

Site Explorer’s Key Improvements

The new Site Explorer features these key improvements:

Access to All URLs Crawled & Indexed by Microsoft Bing

Site Explorer offers a view on the trillions of URLs discovered and the billions of URLs crawled daily by Microsoft Bing.

We no longer limit the number of URLs webmasters can see per site.

This means that for large web sites as facebook.com, webmasters can now access billions of URLs processed by Microsoft Bing.

Lightning Fast Even for Large Websites

We completely redesigned the backend datastore and web interface to keep Site Explorer lighting fast for any site even for extra-large websites as facebook.com.

You can load and explore your sites, your folders, your URLs , generally in less than one second, including for sites with millions of sub-domains, millions for URLs per folder.

Just keep scrolling to see more, you may exhaust your mouse battery or browser resources before getting to the end of extra-large folders.

Your whole site is instantaneously accessible in its entirety. Many webmasters of large sites and domains told us that this is the only way they have to navigate their whole site at such scale.

SEO Issues Are Easier to Find

The tool experience is now more user-friendly and intuitive for SEO.

Site Explorer has a responsive design, works well on mobile, and offers more filtering options which enable access to key SEO insights quickly and intuitively.

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