Bingbot Simulator & Tester
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Simulate a Bingbot visit to any URL on your website. Crawl the page and inspect the HTML Bing Search and Microsoft Copilot get.
Simulate a Bingbot visit
Enter any URL on your website to crawl it as Bingbot and inspect the HTML it gets.
How to use the Bingbot simulator
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Step 1
Enter a URL
Paste the full URL of any page on your website, such as a product page, a blog post, or the home page.
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Step 2
Select the Bingbot user agent
The tester sends the request with the Bingbot user-agent string, so your server answers the way it answers a real Bingbot visit.
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Step 3
Run the crawl
The simulator requests the page as Bingbot and follows redirects, the same way the crawler does.
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Step 4
Inspect the HTML
Check the status code, redirects, response headers, raw HTML, word count, and Open Graph tags Bingbot gets. If your main content is missing from the HTML, Bingbot cannot read it.
What is Bingbot?
Bingbot is Microsoft's web crawler that powers Bing Search, Microsoft Copilot, and AI features across Microsoft products (Edge, Windows, Office). With Copilot's integration into Windows and Microsoft 365, Bingbot's reach extends beyond traditional search. Content indexed by Bingbot can appear in Copilot answers, making Bing optimization increasingly important for AI visibility.
Why allow Bingbot?
Bingbot robots.txt configuration
Control how Bingbot crawls your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain, then run the simulator again on the same URL to confirm the change.
Allow Bingbot
# Allow Bingbot User-agent: bingbot Allow: / User-agent: BingPreview Allow: /
Block Bingbot
# Block Bingbot (not recommended) User-agent: bingbot Disallow: / User-agent: BingPreview Disallow: /
User-Agent String: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; bingbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
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