Bing Webmaster Data

Today marks Day 7.

The Bing Webmaster admin dashboard is finally displaying statistical data.

That “48-hour” promise they made was total bullshit—Bing is absolute garbage.

I’ve forgotten exactly which day Google Webmaster started displaying data—probably around Day 5—but regardless, it was definitely sooner than Bing. That applies to everything: both the search engine indexing itself and the data appearing in the admin dashboard.

So far, Google has been both faster and better than Bing in every respect.

Musings

As of right now:

Google Webmaster data is largely visible, and I’ve also embedded the Google Analytics tracking code, so I can see my traffic data there as well.

I also added Umami Analytics on my own, which similarly allows me to monitor my site’s traffic.

Now, Bing Webmaster is finally showing data, too.

So, the next phase of testing involves monitoring content indexing—specifically, seeing when my dozens of blog posts get indexed, which search engines pick them up, and how many of them actually make it into the index.

Indexing is the absolute prerequisite for generating traffic; only once you have a sufficient number of pages indexed can you start looking at the actual traffic volume and user acquisition coming in via search engines.

And only after you’ve established a steady flow of traffic and users should you start thinking about adding things like affiliate links, advertisements, donation buttons, or membership services.

I have no fucking clue what that moron Bing is thinking. It’s either a complete refusal to index anything at all, or—in the case of a brand-new blog that’s only been live for seven days—it claims to have displayed the site alongside a whopping 260,000 completely irrelevant websites.

What the hell kind of bullshit is that?