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Should your store allow Bingbot?
Bing's crawler — feeds Copilot's shopping answers.
THE VERDICT
Allow it.
This bot indexes your store so AI search can surface you. Block it and you won't appear when shoppers search through AI — the equivalent of de-listing from Google, but for the AI era.
THE TECHNICAL BITS
- robots.txt token
- bingbot
- Operated by
- Microsoft
- Purpose
- AI search indexing you
To allow it, make sure your CDN/WAF (Cloudflare, Akamai, etc.) doesn't challenge or block requests whose user-agent contains bingbot, and that robots.txt doesn't disallow your product paths for it.
Is Bingbot reaching your store right now?
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