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The Bing Business Portal - at last!!

By sjr4x4 : Administrator

Published 15th April 2011 |

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So the Bing Business Portal has been released, and is now available for UK and USA based businesses (not sure about other countries).

This replaces the older Bing Local Listing Center, which never made it to the UK.

It's free, and basically Bings version of Google Places, so it's well worth signing up.

Not the most user friendly interface, and is pretty longwinded, plus you need to verify at the end, and it wouldn't recognise our telephone number! So I've opted for a snail mail verification.

You need a A Microsoft Live ID, so will be prompted to create one, and probarbly a good thing to create one just for business use. Make sure you untick all the marketing options

Here's the link:
Bing Business Portal (BETA)

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25th April 2011 10:00 AM

Has your snail mail verification arrived, and if so how long did it take??
I registered about 2 weeks ago and nothing as yet....

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25th April 2011 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by sjr4x4

“So the Bing Business Portal has been released, and is now available for UK and USA based businesses (not sure about other countries).

This replaces the older Bing Local Listing Center, which never made it to the UK.

It's free, and basically Bings version of Google Places, so it's well worth signing up.

Not the most user friendly interface, and is pretty longwinded, plus you need to verify at the end, and it wouldn't recognise our telephone number! So I've opted for a snail mail verification.

You need a A Microsoft Live ID, so will be prompted to create one, and probarbly a good thing to create one just for business use. Make sure you untick all the marketing options

Here's the link:
Bing Business Portal (BETA)”

Thanks for this Steve, I've just completed and requested the pin code by snail mail.
I have to say, I found it ok to complete in fact.

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26th April 2011 8:20 AM

Originally Posted by harvey

“Has your snail mail verification arrived, and if so how long did it take??
I registered about 2 weeks ago and nothing as yet....”

Nope not yet, but the Google snail mail one takes a couple of weeks as well, so will wait and see!

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16th May 2011 3:43 AM

thank you for sharing , will have a look

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16th May 2011 9:53 AM

Nothing from Bing. Found a thread on UKBuisness Forums on the same topic and lots of cross people complaining that they have not heard anything. Someone got this from Bing,

'Thank you for writing to Bing Technical Support. My name is Lorraine and we apologize for the delayed response as we are receiving a higher volume than expected.
The Bing Business Portal only supports US listings at the moment. We appreciate you bringing this to our attention and we will be taking this information as a suggestion for enhancements in the future. In the meantime, we recommend submitting your listing to Business Mailing Lists - Business to business data list provider and B2B data services
which is a source of our UK listings. When we receive the listing updates from our provider, the changes will be reflected in the Bing Maps system.
Thank you for using Bing.
Sincerely,
Lorraine
Bing Technical Support'

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16th May 2011 4:47 PM

Yep, just went on your link Steve to check and you now can't register unless you're based in USA. Got the following message...

Bing Business Portal is only available in the United States at this time.

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16th May 2011 5:29 PM

Originally Posted by mrb

“Yep, just went on your link Steve to check and you now can't register unless you're based in USA. Got the following message...

Bing Business Portal is only available in the United States at this time.

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That's odd, I managed to register from the UK, just awaiting PIN.

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16th May 2011 8:08 PM

Presume they've amended so that they can deal with the backlog in the states...

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17th May 2011 9:41 AM

Originally Posted by mrb

“Presume they've amended so that they can deal with the backlog in the states...

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Just a further update, I didn't get a pin by post so I e-mailed them and I was amazed to get a quick response saying that they were sorry that I did not receive the pin but had verified my listing for me. Good Stuff uh?

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