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Bing Webmaster Tools To Gain 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:
This is a good point, we should have implemented it sooner. Adding.
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) 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
I am very much looking forward to seeing both these reports in Bing Webmaster Tools!
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Dr. Michio Kaku At Google

Here is a photo from the Google NYC office from a week or so ago where you have Dr. Michio Kaku giving Google Talk at the office there.
Dr. Michio is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center.
He was there to talk about his book, Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything.
I found the image on Instagram.
This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.
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Google Business Profiles Testing Image Slider

Google is testing adding an image carousel directly in the business profile panel. So at the top of a business profile listing you see these business images. In this test, you can swipe the images to see more.
This was spotted by Mike who posted a few photos of it in the Local Search Forum. I took those images and made it into a GIF so you can see what it looks like in action:
Mike wrote, “As of this morning I noticed the ability to side scroll the top image/videos in the listings on mobile. Like a carousel.”
Yep, it does look like that.
Forum discussion at Local Search Forum.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.
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Google Business Profile Bug With Inviting New Owners

Google Business Profiles has a bug that prevents you from inviting a new owner to your Business Profile listing. You can invite new managers, but inviting new owners does not currently work (at least when I wrote this story).
This issue was posted in the Local Search Forums earlier this week where seaniaaa wrote, that “both outgoing, when we are adding clients to their GBP, and incoming, when new clients are adding us to their GBP, we are all unable to select “Owner” access level when sending invites. It only lets you pick the “Manager” access level. This just started happening over the last couple of days. Multiple clients. Chrome is fully up to date. You click to select Owner and it just doesn’t do anything. No error message or warnings at all.”
Supposedly this is a widespread issue impacting anyone trying to add a new owner to their business profiles.
To add new owners or managers to your Google Business Profile, follow these steps:
- Go to your Business Profile.
- Click Menu Menu and then Business Profile settings and then Managers.
- At the top left, click Add Invite new users.
- Enter a name or email address.
- Under “Access,” choose Owner or Manager.
- Click Invite.
I am hoping by the time this story goes out, the issue will be resolved.
Forum discussion at Local Search Forums.
Note: This was pre-written and scheduled to be posted today, I am currently offline for Shavout.
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