Google Search Console
Google-specific index and performance evidence.
A wider search and indexing ecosystem
Microsoft, Bing and IndexNow
Bing supplies webmaster diagnostics and submission tools, while IndexNow provides a protocol for notifying participating engines when URLs change.
Evidence for crawl and search diagnosis
Microsoft documents APIs and tools that expose site, ranking, traffic, keyword, link and crawl information for Bing. Site owners can also submit sitemaps, URLs and site details.
The value is not only a second dashboard. Bing represents another search index and another source of diagnostic evidence outside Google.
Notify engines about meaningful changes
IndexNow lets a website notify participating search engines when a URL is added, updated or deleted. The protocol can reduce the delay before an engine learns that a change occurred.
Notification is not an indexing command. The engine still decides whether to fetch, process, retain and serve the URL.
Signal changes that affect the user or evidence
- New canonical pages or records.
- Materially updated facts, prices, availability or policies.
- Removed or redirected URLs.
- Important corrections to identity or business information.
- Substantial research revisions.
Submission volume is not authority
Repeatedly submitting unchanged URLs does not make the content more valuable. Hidden Radius recommends tying submissions to a publishing log so each notification corresponds to a real change.
Different systems provide different evidence
Bing Webmaster Tools
Bing-specific crawl, keyword, link and submission evidence.
Server logs
Direct evidence that user agents requested public resources.
Public answers
Evidence of presentation and representation at a point in time.
Analytics
Referral and on-site behaviour after a click.
Business systems
Leads, calls, bookings and sales after discovery.
Primary material behind this analysis
Bing Webmaster API
Official capabilities for crawl, traffic, keyword, link, sitemap and URL-submission data.
IndexNow Documentation
Protocol for notifying participating search engines about added, updated and deleted URLs.
Continue through the discovery stack
Crawling, robots.txt and Indexing Explained
A technical guide to discovery, crawler access, robots.txt, infrastructure blocks, directives, canonical URLs, sitemaps and indexing.
Search and AI Visibility Measurement Framework
A layered measurement framework for crawler access, indexing, entity recognition, retrieval, citations, representation accuracy and business outcomes.
AI Search Publishing and Technical Implementation Playbook
A combined editorial and technical playbook for identity, evidence, substantial pages, retrieval-ready sections, crawling, structured data, agents and monitoring.
Search and AI Research Library
A research hub connecting NIST, Stanford HAI, OECD, Google, OpenAI, Perplexity, Microsoft, IETF, W3C, Schema.org and original GEO, RAG and REG sources.