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Bingbot

Honors robots.txt

Bingbot is Microsoft's core Search crawler, feeding both classic Bing search and Microsoft Copilot's grounded answers, making it relevant to both traditional search visibility and Copilot-specific AI citations.

User-agent
bingbot
Operator
Microsoft

Allow in robots.txt

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

Block in robots.txt

User-agent: bingbot
Disallow: /

Pair Bingbot access with Bing Webmaster Tools and the IndexNow protocol for faster reindexing and better Copilot visibility.

Frequently asked questions

Yes — Copilot grounds much of its answer in the Bing index, so Bingbot access and Bing indexing health directly influence Copilot visibility.

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