Verifying Ownership Of Your Site To Bing Webmaster

As a spider web nous (aka spider web log master), too adding posts together with enhancing the template, y'all guide keep a 3rd action - connecting your spider web site (blog) to other spider web sites together with blogs. In many cases, you'll but ship the owners of the other spider web site (blog) a asking to link to your blog.

For links to large together with really active spider web sites, you'll role an online wizard. To attempt out ownership of your spider web site, instead of sending email, you'll add together a file of specific name, or mayhap specific content, into the spider web site. You can't add together a file to your blog, though. With a Blogger blog, y'all guide keep no command over files together with folders - all that y'all produce is issue posts.

One of the virtually of import spider web sites that y'all tin add together your spider web log to, like to Google Webmaster Tools together with Yahoo Site Explorer, is the Microsoft search engine, Bing.

Similar to Google Webmaster Tools together with Yahoo Site Explorer, Microsoft provides Bing Webmaster, which provides y'all the spider web site (blog) possessor the mightiness to monitor together with melody the human relationship betwixt your spider web site (blog) together with Bing, the Microsoft Search Engine. When y'all add together a not Blogger spider web site to Bing Webmaster, y'all add together a file of specific advert together with content, to the root. When y'all add together your blog, y'all add together a tape of specific content - a meta tape - to the template.

This meta record, which provides your verification of ownership to Bing, may locomote ane of the virtually of import unmarried lines of code inward the template. Add this amongst care.

1. First, together with always, backup the template for the blog.
2. Sign inward to your HotMail / Live / Microsoft trouble organisation human relationship (Yes, here, too, y'all guide keep to sign in! And y'all volition necessitate a Microsoft accepted account!)
3. You showtime from Bing Webmaster Center - Home.
4. Under "Sites", you'll encounter the "Add Site" button. Hit the button.
5. Paste or type the URL of the spider web log into the "Site:" box.
6. Hit "Submit".
7. Now you'll guide keep "Verify Ownership".
8. Click on "Option 2: Copy together with glue a tag inward your default webpage".
9. Copy the meta record, equally presented to you.
10. You'll convey the tape equally provided, together with reformat it slightly. Here's an instance of what they provide.
    

    <meta name="msvalidate.01" content="XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX"> 

    
    Here's what I used.
    

    <meta content='XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX' name='msvalidate.01'/> 

11. In approximately other tab or window, opened upwards the template editor window, for the blog.
12. Copy the tape into the template for your blog, exactly below the records added for Google Webmaster Tools together with / or Yahoo Site Explorer verification.
13. Save the template.
14. Back inward the Bing Webmaster "Verify Ownership" window, click on the "Verify" button.
15. You'll instantly encounter your site, added to the Sites list, together with the "Dashboard" for your newly added site volition locomote displayed.
16. And again, backup the template for the blog. Save both backups.

Having verified ownership of your site, y'all instantly guide keep access to diverse features of Bing Webmaster.

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Owners Of Blogs, Alongside Images Inwards The Header, Study Changes Inwards Header Appearance

During the yesteryear few days, we're seeing a few reports inwards Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, from owners of blogs that job an icon inwards the header, instead of or inwards add-on to, evidently text, claiming changes inwards the appearance of the header. The exact job study varies - that the icon has been resized, has shifted inwards position, has move yesteryear away pixelated, or has exactly disappeared.

We convey a rollup discussion, where nosotros are requesting details from each someone observing this job inwards their blog.

1. What is the URL of the blog?
2. What exact symptom are you lot observing, that's a problem?
3. Does the spider web log job a Blogger or 3rd political party template?
4. Does the spider web log job a Designer or Layout template?
5. Has the spider web log been configured for a Dynamic template?
6. How did you lot setup the image, that is inwards job on your blog? Did you lot job the Layout "Configure Header" wizard, did you lot upload the icon using the post service editor "Insert image" wizard, or other?
7. If you lot used the "Configure Header" wizard, which Image / Placement options did you lot select?
   • From your computer.
   • From the web.
   • Behind championship too description
   • Instead of championship too description
   • Have description placed afterward the image
   • Shrink to fit
8. Can you lot honor the icon on your computer? If so, what is the refer of the file, every bit uploaded? Is it a .bmp, .jpg, .png, what?
9. When you lot setup / uploaded the image, what browser (name too version) was used?
10. What browser (name, too version) are you lot using, right now, where the job is visible?

If you lot tin render details, delight create then every bit best every bit you lot are able, either hither or inwards the rollup discussion.

In cases where the URL of the icon inwards job tin endure edited, you lot may endure able to function or then your problem, yesteryear editing the precise URL. It appears that images hosted yesteryear Picasa, which are currently stored inwards a diverseness of sizes (which you lot may run into when you lot job "Insert image", for instance), are at in i lawsuit selected inwards a unlike way, when you lot create non explicitly choose the right size for your purpose.

Look at the icon at the elevation of the screen. If you lot were to hold off at it's URL, you lot would see:

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9BwVdtm4TV84AnJgV3JOqaLKcjyZbqZeKDPxm8Ar_icEne6K-uEiPnXdZ3Ea_zP1JGW-ylAfkE5JQWcyWDt2ZWoJ2FtLNQwaD_zBm0WmQTqkY9Zygrom2DXex9mtn48FsM9cchysrl0pd/s1600-r/RBS+Header+4a.gif

If that icon had been uploaded using the electrical flow "Insert image" magician (in post service editor), or the "Configure Header" magician (in "Page Elements"), it mightiness convey the URL

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif

If the latter URL was correct, at that topographic point would endure iv aliases available:

• Small: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/S160/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif
• Medium: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/S320/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif
• Large: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/S640/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif
• Full Size: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/S1600/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif

If I had this job amongst my header image, I would edit the URL, inwards the template, too I would replace:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif

with

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_pzC_7PLtN-0/R_buGAu4D3I/AAAAAAAABCI/wxcsyLm3DoE/S1600/RBS%2BHeader%2B4a.gif

If your spider web log has this problem, you lot may endure able to similarly edit your spider web log - using "Configure Header" or "Edit HTML" - too function or then your problem. If you lot job "Edit HTML", I suggest, every bit usual, that you lot backup the template - before too after making this tweak.

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