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Bingbot

Indexes for Bing — which also feeds several AI assistants' search layers.

robots.txt tokenBingbot
Respects robots.txtYes
VerificationReverse DNS + published IP ranges
Our recommendationAllow — Real search traffic, plus downstream assistant citations.

Block Bingbot with robots.txt

User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /

robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be Bingbot from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →

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