--- title: "You Ignored Bing. ChatGPT Didn't." url: "https://mycommunitysync.com/you-ignored-bing" community: "CommunitySync" description: "Bing is not a destination, it's a supplier — and one import button reuses everything you already did for Google. Ten minutes, honestly priced." updated: "2026-09-06T12:27:04.113151+00:00" --- # You Ignored Bing. ChatGPT Didn't. *THE CHEAPEST HOUR IN SEO* # You Ignored Bing. ChatGPT Didn't. Judging Bing by how many people visit bing.com is like judging a wholesaler by how many people shop there. The index is plumbing — other products drink from it. And getting into it costs one login, one import button, and about ten minutes of work you have already done once. "You should do Bing SEO" sounds like advice from 2011, and the instinct to skip it is a reasonable one. So let's skip the part that earns the eye-roll. This is not a campaign or a second front. It is one login and an import button — and the reason to spend the ten minutes has almost nothing to do with how many people visit bing.com. ## Market share is the wrong number I'm not going to quote you a share figure. The number that matters isn't who visits Bing — it's who buys wholesale from Bing's index. Every one of these is confirmed from the company's own documentation: - **DuckDuckGo** maintains its own crawler, and says of the ordinary links and images: ["we largely source from Bing"](https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/). - **Yahoo** tells site owners its organic listings are ["powered in part by Bing"](https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2216.html) — and points them at Bing Webmaster Tools. - **Ecosia** says results come from ["Microsoft Bing, Google and EUSP"](https://support.ecosia.org/article/579-search-results-providers), with the Bing results available to every user. - **Microsoft Copilot and Bing's AI answers** — Microsoft's own publisher reporting, [launched February 2026](https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/February-2026/Introducing-AI-Performance-in-Bing-Webmaster-Tools-Public-Preview), covers "Microsoft Copilot, AI-generated summaries in Bing, and select partner integrations." ![](https://iaktsmonietvbikzietg.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/site-assets/platform/ai_1788705205619_2.jpg) And ChatGPT? In June 2025 Microsoft wrote that Bing ["powers a wide range of AI and search experiences — including Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Microsoft Start, and AI tools like ChatGPT"](https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/June-2025/Start-Using-Bing-Webmaster-Tools-to-Improve-Your-Site-Visibility). By February 2026 the same blog had stopped naming its partners, and OpenAI documents a search crawler of its own. Treat it as what it is: **a supply relationship that can change without telling you** — an argument for spending ten minutes once, not for building on top of it. ## The ten minutes is mostly a button None of this is new work. It is the work you already did for Google, claimed a second time. - Sign in to [Bing Webmaster Tools](https://www.bing.com/webmasters) with the Google account that owns your Search Console property. - **Import.** Microsoft's documented flow pulls in your verified sites from Search Console and they arrive *already verified* — no DNS record, no file upload, no second wait. - Submit your sitemap: `/sitemap.xml`, the one your site already publishes and keeps current on its own. - Use **Request indexing** on your homepage and the two or three pages that matter. The reports read like Search Console's, so the statuses you decoded in [Why your site isn't in Google yet](/why-your-site-is-not-in-google-yet) carry straight across. Haven't done the Google side yet? [Do that first](/get-into-google-search-console) — this is the free copy of it. ## Announce pages instead of waiting for them Google gives you a sitemap and patience. Bing also supports [IndexNow](https://www.indexnow.org/): you *tell* participating engines the second a page is added, changed or removed, rather than waiting for a crawler to wander past. The participants are Microsoft Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex and Yep. Google is not among them. For a community site that matters, because **listings go stale**. A property that sold three weeks ago, still being read aloud by an assistant, costs you more credibility than the listing ever earned. If your domain sits on Cloudflare, [Crawler Hints](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cache/how-to/enable-crawler-hints/) does the telling for you — one toggle, it spots likely content changes and sends them to IndexNow. Two smaller things while you're there. Bing's guidance leans hard on sitemaps and machine-readable markup for [discoverability in AI-powered search](https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/July-2025/Keeping-Content-Discoverable-with-Sitemaps-in-AI-Powered-Search) — markup every CommunitySync page already publishes, and that you can read yourself in [What Google sees](/see-what-google-sees). And [Bing Places](https://www.bing.com/forbusiness/) is the free local listing, with an import from your Google Business Profile: the same identity facts, one more place vouching for them. ## The honest close This will not transform your lead flow. Nobody's pipeline was saved by Bing. What it is, precisely, is **cheap insurance and a second door** — ten minutes to be present in an index that several other products drink from, and to stop waiting on crawlers you could simply notify. Priced as insurance, that is a good trade. Priced as a growth strategy, it is a lie. The work that actually moves your numbers is still the work in [your community's SEO in 8 steps](/community-seo-in-8-steps): your own domain, real pages, your people, and a few genuine links. Do the Bing ten minutes on a Tuesday, tick it off forever, and go back to that. *Meet the author* ## Marcin Stempniewicz Technology and Online Marketing Director · CommunitySync Marcin Stempniewicz is the CTO of KW Rental Investments and the architect of CommunitySync, the platform this community runs on. He builds the systems that let an agent turn a rental lead into a forecast, a listing, a shareable report and a closed deal without leaving one place. **Building platforms for communities** Marcin, together with Jason Ross, designed CommunitySync as a multi-tenant platform from the ground up: every community gets its own brand, its own domain, its own feature set and its own member portal, all served from one codebase. For KW Rental Investments that means the [Rental Forecast](https://rentalforecast.com/) and Cost Estimate engines, the opportunity listings and lead inbox, the education playbook, the marketing library, the agent directory you are reading now, and a website builder that gives every agent a personal site under the community's domain. The platform now hosts communities well outside real estate, from an  [Underwater 3D Academy](https://www.u3da.pl) to a furniture visual-commerce company, which is the real test of whether a "community platform" is actually general. His design rule is simple: the agent's job comes first, the system's cleverness last. A report has to be identical every time it is generated. A shared link has to work on any host. A member should never see another community's data, and that guarantee is enforced and tested, not assumed. **Rendering at scale** Before CommunitySync, Marcin co-founded [Ar-range](https://ar-range.app/), a visual-commerce platform for furniture brands. It renders every product variant a brand sells, millions of images from a single 3D source, with a catalog engine, a 3D configurator and AI search on top. The same batch-rendering and automation discipline runs through everything he builds: pipelines that produce the same output on every run and scale without a human in the loop. **Exploration and speaking** Outside the codebase Marcin is a TDI Full Cave diver, technical wreck diver and 3D artist based in Poznań, Poland. He founded the Submerged Foundation to document flooded mines, caves and wrecks as accurate, explorable 3D models. His flagship project, the Maria Concordia flooded magnesite mine, supported by the [XDEEP Exploration Support Program](https://exploration.xdeep.pl/projects/maria-concordia-mine-3d-scanning-project), took hundreds of hours underwater across four levels and a 40-metre shaft and produced a single coherent model of the mile-long site. He collaborates with Poland's National Maritime Museum on the digital documentation of wrecks and founded [U3DA](https://www.u3da.pl), an academy that teaches divers and marine archaeologists to turn their scans into cinematic 3D. He has presented at Hidden Earth (UK), the NSS Convention (West Virginia 2024, Tennessee 2025), Baltictech and Dive Expo Belgium 2025, on how accurate 3D documentation changes cartography and dive planning in overhead environments, and speaks at technology events on rendering automation and building multi-tenant platforms. His work has appeared in [InDepth (GUE)](https://indepthmag.com/mapping-the-mines-of-maria-concordia-my-journey-into-3d/), XDEEP ESP, [divers24](https://divers24.com/flooded-mine-maria-concordia-in-photogrammetric-view/) and Podcast Spod Wody. "The raw scan is not the product," Marcin says. "The story people can actually use is." It is the same principle behind every tool on this platform: the data is not the deliverable, the decision an agent can make with it is. [View profile](https://mycommunitysync.com/authors/marcin-stempniewicz) ## Frequently asked questions ### A question this post answers? The answer — overridden per entry in the CMS. ### Question 2 ## Ten minutes, on a call, done. Book a demo and we'll open your community's site, look at what search engines already read from every page, and walk the Bing import live. Bring the Google account your Search Console sits on. [Book a demo](https://mycommunitysync.com/contact)