Bingbot: What It Does and How to Control It
Microsoft's search crawler. Bing's index built by Bingbot also feeds Bing chat and Copilot answers, so it is the Bing equivalent of Googlebot.
What happens if you allow or block it
Your pages can be indexed and cited in the vendor's search and AI answers.
you lose Bing rankings entirely, and with them visibility in Bing and Copilot AI answers.
The robots.txt rule
This is the exact rule auditme.dev publishes for Bingbot:
User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / Disallow: /auth/ /_next/ /private/ /dashboard /settings /profile Disallow: ... (25 more paths)
The full path list lives in our robots.txt.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Bingbot allowed on auditme.dev?
Yes. Our robots.txt explicitly allows Bingbot to crawl public pages while keeping private areas (auth, dashboard, internal APIs) disallowed.
Does blocking Bingbot hurt Google rankings?
No. Bingbot is Microsoft's crawler and works independently from Googlebot. Blocking it never changes your Google rankings — it only changes you lose Bing rankings entirely, and with them visibility in Bing and Copilot AI answers.
How do I allow or block Bingbot on my own site?
Add a "User-agent: Bingbot" block to your robots.txt with Allow or Disallow rules, then verify the file parses correctly.