Category Archives: Commands

Bing Webmaster API Overview

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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. As you navigate around, they seem to appear and disappear, which can be a bit confusing.

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GetKeywordStats

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This is the Keyword Research tool hidden inside Bing’s Webmaster Tools interface. The Bing keyword API returns the historical (weekly) 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.

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Odd JSON Date Formats

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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.

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