Crawl & indexing
Bing Webmaster Tools — Crawl Control
Configure an hourly Bingbot crawl pattern to balance discovery work with the periods when a site is serving more visitors.
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- Making useful Bingbot crawling fit a site's available serving capacity
- Owner next step
- Inspect genuine crawl activity and server load first. If adjustment is justified, review the time zone and hourly pattern for your own site before saving it.
- Access
- Bing Webmaster Tools account with access to the selected site
- Cost
- Free. Part of Bing's webmaster tools. A robots.txt crawl-delay takes precedence over this setting. This controls Bingbot's crawl pattern, not other AI bots, guaranteed crawl volume or search inclusion.
- Interfaces
- Website
- Source evidence
- Official public source · checked 2026-10-20. This is a description review, not an execution or compatibility test.
- Traffic and availability
- Not monitored. Bot visits, citations, uptime and successful delivery have not been measured by this directory.
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