Bing announces refreshed Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing announced Wednesday at SMX West that it will release the first phase of a refreshed and improved Bing Webmaster Tools in the first week of March. The new toolset promises to offer a faster, cleaner, more responsive and even more actionable set of features for SEOs and Webmasters.

Bing is not just releasing a user interface update, but this first release will have three main new features:

• Backlinks: The inbound links report in the current portal has been integrated with the disavow links tool, which are now a part of the new backlinks report in the refreshed portal.
• Search Performance: Page traffic and search keywords reports are also integrated as one and are a part of the new search performance report.
• Sitemaps: The sitemaps page is the refreshed and looks new.