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BingBot — robots.txt guide
Bing and Microsoft Copilot search indexing crawler.
- robots.txt User-agent
- Bingbot
- Company
- Microsoft
- Official documentation
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/which-crawlers-does-bing-use-8c184ec0
How to allow Bingbot in robots.txt
Add an explicit allow rule (recommended when you use specific bot blocks elsewhere):
User-agent: Bingbot Allow: /
How to block Bingbot in robots.txt
Block this crawler from your entire site:
User-agent: Bingbot Disallow: /
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