Author: mike_sullivan

Since at least July 7, 2018, the Bing Webmaster API has been responding “ErrorCode”:4,”Message”:”ERROR!!! ThrottleUser” to all queries I have made to the service. Others have confirmed that they are getting the same response. A simple query to this url fails (try your own api key): https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc/json/GetUserSites?apikey=[API_KEY] Bing Webmaster Support has stated “we are not…

Get detailed traffic statistics for top queries. This is the Search Keywords report in the web interface.  Like many of the API commands, there is only one parameter: siteUrl – one of your verified websites Notes: Although the web interface allows you to select date ranges by date, the numbers appear to be updated in…

Gets detailed traffic statistics for your top pages — this is the contents of the Page Traffic report in the web interface.   There is only one parameter: siteUrl – one of your verified websites Notes: Although the web interface allows you to select date ranges by date, the numbers appear to be updated in weekly…

Gets traffic statistics (Clicks and Impressions counts by day) for the specified siteUrl for the past 30 days. This would typically be used to create a small trend chart at the top of a report. There is only one parameter: siteUrl – one of your verified websites Example: https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc/json/GetRankAndTrafficStats?siteUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.analyticsedge.com%2F&apikey=… This returns an array of values, under…

Returns the list of websites registered with Bing Webmaster Tools.  You’ll probably need this to populate a picklist for subsequent commands, since most commands rely on the siteUrl. There are no parameters (other than your API key). Example: https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/api.svc/json/GetUserSites?apikey=… This returns an array of values, under the node “d”. For each entry, there are “__type” values,…

For some reason, they decided to use the ASP.NET AJAX / WCF Web Services date format (“\/Date(1399100400000-0700)\/”) for the Bing Webmaster API JSON response instead of the more conventional ISO 8601 format (“2014-05-02T11:23:31.324Z”) used in the XML response. If you’ve never seen one of these, I feel for you. The big number is the number of milliseconds…

This is the Keyword Research tool hidden inside Bing’s Webmaster Tools interface. It returns the historical broad-match and strict-match impressions for the specified keyword term. Use it for competitive research and to find new campaign keyword terms for your own use. Parameters include: q – a URL-encrypted version of the keyword term country – lowercase ISO…

API Documentation The Bing Webmaster API document starts here, but it gets a little confusing. For example, as you navigate around, you will see three similar, but different, navigation nodes (image @ right). As you navigate around, they seem to appear and disappear, which can be a bit confusing. The actual methods are listed under…