Bing Webmaster Tools continues to impress with new added features. Granted, they’re features that Google Webmaster tools already have so they’re not providing anything shiny or new but still, it’s about time. Several days ago, Bing announced the ability to download data, what!! They said due to user’s feedback, they’ve responded accordingly. I reckon they’d been working on it all along; I mean, the data is pretty pointless if you can’t download it and sure as hell they know this.

Below is the data fields available for download according to type, simply by clicking on the “Export” button on the right of the Webmaster tool interface.

Bing have a Feature Requests forum where you as the user can voice your opinions and tell them how you’d like to see Bing’s Webmaster Tools improved and features to be added.

The second new feature they added which again for Google is not new, is the “Add Query String Parameter”, in the new page under Crawl > Crawl Settings. Say you have pages in your site being duplicated dynamically with query strings appended to the original URL, a common issue with e-commerce sites, you are now able to tell Bing to ignore these query strings so they don’t get indexed.