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I submitted a domain's sitemap to Bing bot (webmaster tool). It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing webmaster-tool takes to complete the process and show the success or error message?

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There seems to be a problem with the sitemap submission process, going back at least to the beginning of last July. The last note on that thread was posted just a few days ago, saying no change in the commenter's situation. There are several other threads if you poke around, but that seems like the longest-running one and I've seen an employee refer people back to it, so it might be the one to watch if you want to track any developments.

Given that this is still occurring despite being identified as "minor" by JayGon, it looks like it's low priority and you'll just have to wait. Keep in mind, though, that sitemaps are primarily helpful suggestions to the search engines. As long as your pages are reachable via links somehow, they should still be indexed, etc.

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Thanks for directing me to the forum's post. It seems like, all we need to do is to wait till they crawler reaches our domain. – vulcan raven Jan 26 at 11:37
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Bing bot is super slow, it took me a month to index my site, it can take a long time depending upon the number of pages you have.

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The question regards a sitemap submission specifically, not site crawling. – Su' Jan 20 at 15:59
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@Su' It is also really slow. – HackToHell Jan 20 at 16:24
How slow an engine's crawl schedule is has no inherent relation to how long it takes them to acknowledge a sitemap submission, unless there's some reference you're not sharing. Submissions of sitemaps to Google Webmaster tools are generally resolved within hours, for example, regardless of whether they've actually spidered the site. – Su' Jan 20 at 17:15
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