This tool simply redirects BingBot and helps Bing's Webmaster tools keep your site URLs straight. A new tool in Bing Webmaster Tools will help webmasters performing site moves. Whether you're moving URL structure around internally or changing your...
Crawlability, including XML sitemaps, navigational structure, rich media cautions, graceful degradation, URL structure, robots.txt, crawl rate, access and instruction for Bingbot to crawl the site, and using Ignore URL parameters, where appropriate.
Here you have the ability to instruct the Bing crawler (Bingbot) to ignore URL parameters that have no impact upon the content of the page (usually tracking parameters). Fetch as Bingbot If you’d like to see your page as Bing’s crawler – Bingbot...
Crawl Management: This function alerts webmasters as to how Bingbot crawls the website and controls how often and how hard Bing crawls site. Moderated by Thom Craver (@thomcraver), Web and Database Specialist, Saunders College (RIT), The Tools of...
In the case of Amazon, canonical standards for product URLs are retained by means of cloaking: users are given URLs with session data in the query string, and spiders such as Googlebot and Bingbot are given base URLs only.
Crawl delay management allows webmasters to configure the BingBot crawl rate for a specific domain. This tool features a neat, AJAX-based drag-and-drop interface to draw which hours you want to set the BingBot crawl rate.
Please see my site for a complete description on using logfilt, but briefly, here is an example of the syntax you would use to find all 302s reported by Bingbot in a specified period of time, and save them to a file:
logfilt -H bingbot -R 302...
Bingbot supercedes msnbot, but the latter should still be used in robots.txt and elsewhere redundantly with bingbot until officially deprecated. They have the market share. They have control of the press (can you think of a day in a recent memory...
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First spotted at Webmasterworld, BingBot arrived yesterday, and Bing later confirmed a staged rollout is underway a couple days ahead of schedule. Bing noted that you'll continue seeing traffic in your server logs mostly from MSNBot, but will...
A friendly PR representative at Waggener Edstrom told us that Bing's crawler "will come out of beta on October 1st" and will be rebranded as the 'bingbot,' replacing the existing msnbot. As Yahoo and Bing progress on the Search Alliance, Yahoo said...