Bing Webmaster SEO Report

Yesterday when I was submitting my new post in Bing, I happened to browse my dashboard which I seldom do. I came across with the SEO Report tab. When I clicked the tab, according to Bing, I have pages that do not comply with the best SEO practices. Below are the 5 SEO suggestions that need to pay attention to.

When you click the SEO suggestions one by one, it will display what the non-compliance is all about. It also displays the URL affected by this non-compliance. For example in the screenshot above, it is about ALT-txt of an image. When I checked the affected URLs, I found out that I do not have ALT-txt for some images.

What has surprised me is that, I found my one post that is not being indexed by Google for more than 2 weeks . According to Bing Webmaster, bots cannot crawl on this post due to the HTML size is over than the required. It says that the top of my page post contains large amounts of CSS or code which makes it difficult for search engine crawlers to get into.

I checked my post and found out that my image was on the top of my post. I relocated it down the 1st paragraph instead from the top. After the relocation, I re-fetched it in Google search console and it was indexed the next morning I woke up. Links and images are converted into HTML codes so it is better to not ut them in the top of the page especially if they exceed more than 125KB.

This Bing webmaster feature is a great tool that we can take advantage of. Have you utilize these tools in your Bing webmaster account? Share your experience in this post.