How To Register My Business On Bing

If you want to set up a Bing Places for Business listing, you can take your work cutting out for you lot, specially if you've hundreds of locations to upload that aren't on Google My Business. Even if you're just adding or claiming i business on Bing Places business, the procedure can get circuitous.

That's why I've put together this footstep-by-stride guide on how to add and merits a business on Bing Places. Follow these steps and y'all'll encounter your business' pin on Bing Maps in no fourth dimension.

Before you begin, though, I'd recommend setting up a Microsoft account. It'southward not mandatory to piece of work with Bing Places, merely it makes the process a lot smoother.

Whether you're just calculation a single business to Bing Places or you're managing a large chain which needs to build 100s of listings on Bing Places, you can just click below to caput straight to the process that's correct for you lot.

How to Add together or Claim a Business organization on Bing Places for Business (SMBs: i-x Locations)
How to Add a Business concern on Bing Places for Business (Large Businesses: 10+ Locations)
- Import business data from Google My Concern
- Manual upload (set up an HQ in Bing Places for Business and bulk upload business location information)

Step ane. Log in to your Bing Places for Business Account.

Step 2. Go to the Business Search folio. Select the business organisation type (number of locations) and the state the business operates in search. Then search for your business using the phone number or a combination of the business organisation proper noun and the location.

Step 3a. If your concern has been added to Bing Places, it will appear in the search results. Once you lot see it, simply click 'Claim and edit details' which volition redirect you to the location dashboard.

Step 3b. If you're adding a brand new business non currently listed on Bing Places, y'all'll want to click 'Create New Concern'. The process from this point on is the same for creating and challenge a business organisation listing.

Step iv. Within the location dashboard you can edit your basic business organisation details. When yous're washed, click 'Next', to continue to the side by side pace, where you'll exist able to edit and or add more rich data to your listing. (Notation: Bing Places does not allow PO BOX addresses)

Step 5. To specify a location on the map, click 'Motility map pin', move the pin to the center of your concern' area, then click 'Submit'.

Step 6. Enter your business category (you lot'll need to select from one of Bing'south presets) and write your bespoke business concern description.

Step 7. Choose to testify or hide your full business organisation accost. Merely as in Google My Concern, y'all should merely testify your full address if customers can expect to visit y'all at this address. If yous don't have a business address, select 'No'.

Pace viii. Enter your business' contact details and links to relevant social media profiles, such every bit Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, and TripAdvisor.

Footstep nine. Add photographs of your business to your listing. Click 'Browse' to select the photos you'd like to upload. (Note: the first photo yous upload will appear equally the main image on your listing, so we'd recommend choosing a company logo.)

Footstep 10. Next, set your working hours, if applicative. Click 'Skip' to continue without setting business concern hours.

Step 11. The final step is to verify the business organization on Bing. Yous can verify the business listing right away or do it at a later date. For verification, y'all will see available several options, which tin can include telephone, website, electronic mail and post. There is no way to specify which will be bachelor to you.

Select your preferred verification method and follow the instructions on the screen. For some businesses, email verification is bachelor. In this case, Bing will auto-populate the domain role of what it thinks your business email should be (email domain should match the concern URL domain). Y'all won't be able to alter this and can only enter the first part of your business email. If Bing guessed the email domain incorrectly, you lot will demand to choose another verification method.

Postcards may take 5-six business days to reach the business accost listed. You can also verify via the Bing Places app (Apple App Store / Google Play)

Stride 12. Once y'all verify the business concern listing on Bing, it will go through a vii-14 day publishing cycle, after which all changes will get visible on Bing Maps and in Bing's local search results.

How to import multi-location business data from Google My Business to Bing Places for Concern

Pace 1. Log in to your Bing Places for Business concern Account.

Footstep 2. Go to the Business Search page. Select the business concern type (number of locations) and the state the business concern operates in search. Then search for your business organisation using the phone number or a combination of the business name and the location.

Pace iii. Select 'Import from Google My Business now'.

Footstep 4. On the popup that explains the import process farther, select whether you desire to sync data with Google My Business at regular intervals, and if then, how frequently (Weekly / Biweekly / Monthly). Then click 'Go on to Google My Business'.

Pace five. Choose the Google My Business account you lot wish to connect to Bing.

Step half dozen. Confirm the connection with Bing.

Pace vii. Finally, you'll see the list of businesses that are in your Google My Business dashboard. Here you tin can select which ones you want to import by checking the box with the business name.

This procedure will featherbed the Bing Places for Business concern verification stage, provided that your Google My Business listings are verified.

How to manually upload multi-location concern information to Bing Places for Business concern, by setting up an HQ and uploading data via a spreadsheet.

Step 1.Caput to your Bing Places for Business business relationship.

Pace two. Select 'Claim or add your concern manually'.

Stride three. Next y'all'll demand to register your chain and gear up your HQ. Enter your contact information and select 'Register a chain business concern'.

Step 4. Fill in the information well-nigh your chain, including name, website and the number of stores or centers.

Footstep 5. Make full in the details about your corporate HQ. This is where the verification asking will be sent earlier you lot upload your location data.

Step 6. Confirm that the details you've submitted are correct and click 'Submit'.

Pace seven. Adjacent you'll need to verify the concatenation'due south headquarters. Normally ii options will exist available here: email verification or the usual choice to post the postcard to the business address.

The easiest and quickest manner to get your headquarters verified in Bing Places for Business is to verify via email, as y'all volition receive the verification PIN instantly. You but need to enter the e-mail address (which must friction match the business website domain) and click 'Verify Now'.

If the email accost is approved, you'll get a pop up asking to enter the Pin. Check your inbox and enter the PIN here:

The second option allows you to request for the verification PIN to be mailed to the HQ accost you lot entered earlier in this procedure.

Yous can always request some other Pivot or verify later. If you choose to verify after, you'll be prompted to enter your Pin each time you lot log in to your Bing Places for Business dashboard.

Once y'all enter the correct Pivot, the account will exist reviewed and verified, meaning you'll exist able to move on to uploading the data about all your locations in bulk.

Stride viii. Head to your Bing Places for Business dashboard and click 'Manage chain business'.

Step 9. You'll need to fill up out the location information (for up to 10,000 listings) using an Excel template preferred past Bing Places for Business. Click 'bulk upload template' or 'Download template' to download the template.

Step 10. The template contains examples of how to fill it in, so provided you take access to all the relevant information it should be piece of cake (though fairly time-consuming) to complete.

Once y'all've filled it in, salvage the file, select it with 'Browse', then click 'Upload' to upload the selected file.

Step 11. Cheque that the uploaded information is accurate. If some of the data had errors, the file won't upload and instead yous volition get an mistake bulletin. You volition have the pick to download a file which highlights these errors. All you lot'll demand to do is correct them and re-upload the file once again.

One time all locations have been added, they will be claimed automatically and volition go through a verification cycle. They volition be marked as "Verified", and once they get alive (within one to two weeks) they volition exist marked as "Published".

The summary and condition of your listings will be shown on the main dashboard:

If you ever need to add a new location, you can just get through the steps to update the locations file. Download the file, add the new location information to the template upload the file over again. This style you will not demand to worry about verifying the branch separately.

Retrieve, you tin manage several chain businesses inside i account, just yous will need to register each 1 separately.

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