How to set Bing tag titles and meta descriptions

@noahlovell

Hi there Noah,

I note that I am able to set the “Tag Title” and “Meta Description” for Google Search results, but not for Bing. May I ask how I can I go about it?

P.S. I do not want my site to be indexed, only the home page.

Cheers,
Alex

When you set meta data, like Title, Description etc, these aren’t being set explicitly for one search engine. They are standardised properties that search engines like Google/Bing etc are capable of reading and using in their search results.

So you only need to add them once, and any search engine will read and understand them :slight_smile:

Hi Noah,

Thanks for circling back. I note that the results shown for Google and Bing differ quite drastically, where even my company logo wasn’t pulled for Bing.

Any thoughts?

Did you recently update this information? There’s a chance it may not have been indexed by Bing yet.

Additionally, in recent years, these properties have become more of a guide for search engines - a sort of “this is what I think and want to be displayed” - however, they may choose other information from your site (for example a H1 text over the Title) if it deems it to be more relevant to the search intent of the person looking on the search engine

Hi Noah,

Thanks for coming back. The information has been as such since the beginning, and Bing just didn’t pick up the Tag Title nor the Meta Description, nor the icon.

Must my site be connected to Bing Webmaster for a start? Because for Google, we didn’t have to connect to Google Search Console and it was already showing the Tag Title and Meta Description.

Cheers.

It won’t hurt to do so - when you do and request a crawl, it’s like shouting to the search engine “Hey! This site exists, come and look at it” - else you have to wait for them to naturally find it via various ways.

I missed this original question too :face_with_peeking_eye:

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