Claim 122
Microsoft states that a crawl-delay directive in robots.txt always takes precedence over Bing Webmaster Tools crawl control settings for Bingbot.
- entity
- Bingbot
- field
- honours_crawl_delay
- value
yes- statement
- Microsoft states that a crawl-delay directive in robots.txt always takes precedence over Bing Webmaster Tools crawl control settings for Bingbot.
- evidence_url
- https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/crawl-control-55a30303
- evidence_quote
- "If we find a crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt file, then it will always take precedence over the information from this feature."
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-14
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
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