Bing Webmaster Tools Adding Bing Chat & Index Coverage Reporting

Yesterday, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced at PubCon that Bing Webmaster Tools would get two new features. First is the Bing Chat integration, and the second is the index coverage report.

The Bing Chat integration, where the Bing Webmaster Tools performance report will allow you to see impressions, click, click-through rates, and more from Bing Chat will be fantastic. It is something we've asked for from Google and Bing, that to alleviate publisher and site owner concerns; show us the data. Show us if people are clicking from the Bing Chat or Bard features to our sites.

So supposedly, this is coming to Bing Webmaster Tools, here is a screenshot from Twitter:

Here is more coverage from Twitter of this announcement:

Wow Bing Chat Integration in Bing WebmasterTool wird kommen #pubcon #bing #seo pic.twitter.com/LXexpl4cm7

— Ferhat Öztürk (@seopard) February 28, 2023

Announced at #Pubcon, @bing chat integration is coming to their webmaster tools. @facan pic.twitter.com/vapkMXJpWp

— Patrick Stox (@patrickstox) February 28, 2023

Wooo. Announcing upcoming Bing chat integration into Bing Webmaster Tools! @facan #pubcon pic.twitter.com/kp1zIr1l5e

— Jennifer Slegg (@jenstar) February 28, 2023

Mikhail from Microsoft made it sound like this is coming soon the other day:

Really curious as to when we will start seeing Bing Chat search traffic metrics on Bing's Webmasters Tool. @MParakhin

— D@RWIN (@DasfNYC) February 27, 2023

Index coverage is coming to Bing Webmaster Tools to show how well your sites being indexed. I am surprised it wasn't there already but now it is here or coming really soon.

Here is a screenshot from Twitter:

Here are more tweets on this:

Announced at #Pubcon, sitemap index coverage in @BingWMC. From @facan pic.twitter.com/pb3W4uuS8F

— Patrick Stox (@patrickstox) February 28, 2023

Bing Webmaster Tools will include their Indexnow API data pic.twitter.com/5Ex3QBtanv

— Jeremy Rivera (@JeremyRiveraSEO) February 28, 2023

Note: This is not live yet for most sites:

Some questions, though. Seems like Index Coverage could be just for sitemaps? Also, when is this all coming? @facan, can you provide more info about this? I wasn't at Pubcon so not sure if you covered this yet. :) https://t.co/XHiQcOsiIK

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 1, 2023

I am very much looking forward to seeing both these reports in Bing Webmaster Tools!

Forum discussion at Twitter.

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