Go to the /robots.txt for your website and verify that content can be indexed. Check that Allow Search Engine indexing is enabled in your HelpGuides site settings.
Whether using a subdomain provided by HelpGuides or using your own domain, you will need to submit your sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools for indexing.
In order for the Bing search engine to crawl your content for search, it needs to know about it. Bing Webmaster Tools allows you to submit a sitemap to Bing that it can regularly crawl to update it's search index for your content.
Navigate to https://www.bing.com/webmasters/ and create an account. You will need to have the full domain of the site you want to create, e.g. example.helpguides.io.
Bing will provide several options for verifying your ownership of the domain.
This is the easiest option for users of HelpGuides:
<meta name="msvalidate.01" content="E13E88EAC44D162B933255FC65C62FE4" />
Code tabOnce verified, the last step is to tell Bing about your content.
Navigate to Sitemaps in Bing Webmaster Tools and add the sitemap for your HelpGuides content.
You can find your Sitemap by adding /sitemap.xml to the end of your HelpGuides website. For example, https://docs.helpguides.io/sitemap.xml.
Below are some frequently asked questions about submitting your HelpGuides site to Bing Webmaster Tools.
Go to the /robots.txt for your website and verify that content can be indexed. Check that Allow Search Engine indexing is enabled in your HelpGuides site settings.
See above, but also ensure that the article's status is Published and that the article's Allow Search Engine Indexing is enabled. Indexing is enabled by default for all articles, but can be disabled.