Setting preferred domain in Bing tools?

[William.Lau]

Does anyone know where the option is to set the preferred domain to www. or non-www. in Bing tools?

I've been searching around the control panel and have yet to find anything that does that for me.

Thanks

[AlanBleiweiss]

I don't recall bing announcing this functionality, nor is it accessible from BWT's control panel - there is no such option.  Checking BWT's help system also turns up no info found, so unless there's some magic hidden access to set it, it doesn't exist.  the proper best practice solution would resolve that though - set one or the other at your server level as the version of choice, and implement a site-wide redirect from the other.

That way you won't need to rely on individual search engine's webmaster tool system to have to figure it out - you'll always be in control, as it should be.

[William.Lau]

Yep, I would've done it via htaccess but we don't have access to those files. This is very unfortunate.

Anyone else know any options?

[KyleJB]

You could use a rel="canonical" pointing to the preferred version of each page. This isn't as optimal as using a 301 because I believe Bing still only considers the rel="canonical" a hint, but it sounds like your best bet at this point. Worth a shot.