Does Bing Last Crawl Update?

[KyleEaves]

Do those of you using Bing Webmaster tools find your sitemap last crawl date gets updated? I noticed mine never updates, just shows the date of the last time I submitted it. It seems like it would update daily as it looks like bing crawls my site daily. See attached image.

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[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Kyle

Did you take a look at the Crawl Control in Bing Webmaster Tools? This has been very helpful for me.

My sitemaps look pretty up to date - last being 4/30.

Try that and let me know. Hope this helps!

[KyleEaves]

I increased the crawl rate for certain hours of the day when the traffic is slower, will see if that does anything. It seems as though Bing is crawling my site, just not my sitemap for some reason.

[PatrickDelehanty]

Hi Kyle

Take a look at the Build a sitemap page from Google Webmaster Tools Help, particularly "Sitemap tag definitions".

There are some tags you can take advantage of that can also help with crawling and how often your pages change.

Take a look at that page and make sure everything is formatted properly.

Hope this helps a bit as well - good luck!

[KyleEaves]

Thanks for the information. I don't know how to and don't think I have access to change those settings on my sitemap with my current website provider. I'll send this information to them and see if they know what the problem is. Google seems to update daily, so there must be a setting that Bing doesn't like.