Microsoft
Search engines
bingbot
Crawls pages for Bing search.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- bingbot
- Operator
- Microsoft
- Verification
- Published IP list
- Source
- Microsoft documentation
What a search engine crawler does
A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.
Block or allow bingbot in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block bingbot
User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /Allow bingbot
User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /Questions, answered.
bingbot is a search engine crawler run by Microsoft. Crawls pages for Bing search.
Yes. Microsoft says bingbot follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: bingbot" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Check the request's IP address against the list Microsoft publishes. A user agent alone proves nothing, since any script can copy it.
Yes. bingbot indexes pages for Microsoft's search results, which send people to your site.
Usually not. Blocking bingbot removes your pages from its search results.
In its own documentation at https://www.bing.com/toolbox/verify-bingbot. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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