BingPreview: What It Does and How to Control It
Microsoft's rendering crawler that takes snapshots of pages so Bing can show link previews and rich snippets that match the rendered page.
What happens if you allow or block it
Your pages can be indexed and cited in the vendor's search and AI answers.
Bing's preview snapshots of your pages may render empty or outdated.
The robots.txt rule
This is the exact rule auditme.dev publishes for BingPreview:
User-agent: BingPreview 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 BingPreview allowed on auditme.dev?
Yes. Our robots.txt explicitly allows BingPreview to crawl public pages while keeping private areas (auth, dashboard, internal APIs) disallowed.
Does blocking BingPreview hurt Google rankings?
No. BingPreview is Microsoft's crawler and works independently from Googlebot. Blocking it never changes your Google rankings — it only changes Bing's preview snapshots of your pages may render empty or outdated.
How do I allow or block BingPreview on my own site?
Add a "User-agent: BingPreview" block to your robots.txt with Allow or Disallow rules, then verify the file parses correctly.