{"id":999,"date":"2021-12-28T07:48:25","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2021\/12\/28\/5844144-how-to-add-a-domain-to-the-bing-search-console-at-hostinger\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:02:25","slug":"5844144-how-to-add-a-domain-to-the-bing-search-console-at-hostinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5844144-how-to-add-a-domain-to-the-bing-search-console-at-hostinger\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Add a Domain to the Bing Search Console at Hostinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">You want to add your domain to the Bing Search Console but are not sure how to do it? Then please take a look at this step-by-step instruction, written for you &#128522;<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_ab80ed51c1\">Step 1 &ndash; Bing Search Console<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">If you don&rsquo;t have a Microsoft account yet, please <b><a href=\"https:\/\/account.microsoft.com\/account\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">create one<\/a><\/b> and authorize in<b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/webmasters\/about\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">Bing Search Console<\/a><\/b>. <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">If you already <b><a href=\"\/support\/3692620-how-to-add-a-domain-to-the-google-search-console\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">added your domain to Google Search Console<\/a><\/b>, you can easily import it:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/91913269-db4d-4258-8216-30976df9fdb2.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4049\" alt=\"Google Search Console import screen with the Import button highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">On this article we will proceed with adding a new domain instead, simply enter your domain name and click on <b>Add<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/cd259c8d-169a-43eb-8117-dae36311b919.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4050\" alt=\"Bing Webmaster Tools page showing an Add button below a site URL field\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You will be presented with three options of verifying your domain, we highly recommend going with CNAME option:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/4bf15728-c6e0-4a85-bc1e-4aa6bb9408a7.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4052\" alt=\"Bing Search Console verification methods with CNAME record to DNS option highlighted\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">The most important thing you need from the window that appears &ndash; the <b>CNAME record<\/b> and its <b>value<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/c08895a2-9991-41f5-904f-9dc3da87c604.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4053\" alt=\"Bing Search Console CNAME record verification screen with the Verify button highlighted\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_71304d98bf\">Step 2 &ndash; Working with the domain <\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Open Hostinger Control Panel in a new tab. Once you got it open, you will need to <b><a href=\"\/support\/4738777-how-to-add-and-remove-cname-records-on-hpanel\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">add the copied CNAME record<\/a><\/b> to our DNS Zone. It will look something like this:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/e94d1f72-4f1e-4416-ab63-dc598aa60d1a.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4054\" alt=\"Hostinger DNS zone with a Bing verification CNAME record highlighted\"><\/div><h2 id=\"h_36280786b1\">Step 3 &ndash; Final<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">After a few minutes, return to the open tab and click <b>Verify<\/b>:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/ccc4ae21-470b-492d-8d16-59efadd754a8.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4055\" alt=\"Hostinger DNS panel showing Add CNAME record to DNS with a highlighted Verify button\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">You may see this window with the following message:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/cf160297-c88f-4406-a15f-e23f5a54b14a.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4056\" alt=\"Bing Search Console CNAME verification error: verify.bing.com not detected in DNS records\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\"><b>What it means<\/b>: the added record simply did not have enough time to get propagated. To check the current status of the propagation, you can go to the<a href=\"https:\/\/dnschecker.org\/#TXT\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\"> DNS Checker<\/a> and insert the data this way:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/c8befa92-563f-43b9-b3f0-60eb51323821.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4057\" alt=\"DNS check tool with a highlighted Search button and CNAME selector\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">As soon as you see that all the map is covered with checkmarks (apart from one maximum) it will mean that you can go back to the Bing Search Console and click <b>Verify <\/b>again. The result should be like this:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2021\/12\/706d5ba1-7a72-4479-a311-119091156207.jpg\" data-media-id=\"4058\" alt=\"Bing Webmaster Tools confirmation popup showing site addition successful and domain added\"><\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">If you see this message &ndash; congratulations, <b>you have successfully added your domain to the Bing Search Console<\/b>, have a productive work on the site &#128522;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step-by-step guide for adding a domain to the Bing Search Console<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seo"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5844144-how-to-add-a-domain-to-the-bing-search-console-at-hostinger\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5844144-como-anadir-un-dominio-a-la-consola-de-busqueda-de-bing-en-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5844144-comment-ajouter-un-domaine-a-la-bing-search-console-chez-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5844144-bagaimana-cara-menambahkan-domain-ke-bing-search-console-di-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5844144-como-adicionar-um-dominio-ao-search-console-do-bing-no-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5844144-----bing-search-console\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4061,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions\/4061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}