Microsoft chases Google

Microsoft has launched its answer to Google. So far, MicroSoft has not been able to break into the Google dominated search space, but knowing Microsoft they're not likely to give up easy.

So, should you spend a lot of effort optimizing for Bing? Well, not until demostrate some market share, but it couldn't hurt to submit your site to Bing.

To submit your site to Bing:
To request that Bing crawl your site, submit your site's domain to http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx.

To submit your Sitemap:
To submit an XML-based Sitemap for your site, copy and paste the below URL into the address bar of your browser--be sure to change “www.YourWebAddress.com” to your domain name--and then press ENTER:

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=www.YourWebAddress.com/sitemap.xml