Bing Places for Business
Bing Places for Business is a free Bing service which allows businesses to claim existing Local Listings, or add new ones, in order to manage the accuracy of information Bing displays about you to customers.
Bing Places for Business can help businesses by:
- Showing the business listing in local search results, making it more visible to online customers
- Allowing businesses to update their listings, helping to ensure customers have right information
- Allowing businesses to verify ownership of their listing, helping to protect that listing from unauthorised changes
Creating a Bing Places Account
To use Bing Places for Business you will first need a Bing account. You can do this by creating a new Bing account or by using an existing Facebook or Google account.
Once you've signed in, your Bing Places account is automatically created and any listings you claim/create will be associated with the email credentials you've used to log in.
Getting set up
There are three steps to getting your Local Listing information added to Bing:
Add a Listing
Start by searching to see if Bing already has a listing for your business. If the listing exists, you can claim that listing and modify it as needed. If a listing does not exist, you can add a new one. Businesses with multiple locations can use a bulk upload file to add up to 10,000 locations at once.
Verify
Verifying a listing protects it from unauthorised changes. Users can verify ownership of their listings via a unique PIN sent to them via postal mail, email, text message, phone call, online verification or via Webmaster.
- Chain businesses with multiple locations can verify all of their businesses at once.
- Agencies need to go through a special authorisation process.
- Only verified listings are processed for publishing on Bing.
Some Verification options may not be available to all customers. Click here for more information.
Publish
After successful verification, listings are processed by Bing for publishing. Publish ETA will be available next to the 'Verified' status'.
Editing a listing
To edit any information about your listing (e.g. hours of operation, photos, website info) login to your Bing Places account, select the listing you would like to update and use the Edit option from top left to update the details.