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When to use bingbot to crawl or not to crawl?
If there is no specific set of directives for the bingbot or msnbot user agent, then BingBot will honor the default set of directives, defined with the wildcard user agent. For example: In most cases, you want to tell all search engines the URL paths where you want them to crawl, and the URL paths you want them to not crawl.
Why does bingbot ignore all other directives?
If you have a specific set of directives for the bingbot user agent, BingBot will ignore all the other directives in the robots.txt file. Therefore, if there is a default directive that should apply to BingBot as well, you must copy it to the bingbot section in order for BingBot to honor it.
What’s the key rule to remember in bingbot?
A key rule to remember is that BingBot honors only one set of directives, in this order of priority: The section for the bingbot user agent, discarding everything else. The section for the msnbot user agent (for backwards compatibility), discarding everything else.
Do you need line breaks between records bingbot?
You need line breaks between records (a record starts with one or more User-agent lines). Disallow: bingbot disallows crawling of URLs whose paths start with “bingbot” (i.e., http://example.com/bingbot ), which is probably not what you want. Not an error, but Disallow: is not needed (as it’s the default anyway).
When does bingbot look for my robots.txt file?
BingBot does not “assume” directives from other hosts which have a robots.txt in place, associated with a domain. When does BingBot look for my robots.txt file?
How does bingbot work and why is it important?
Importantly, Bing has a heavy focus on: Reducing crawling, rendering, and indexing of chaff (saving money). Reducing carbon emissions (Canel insists heavily on this). Improving the performance of the ranking algorithms.