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Bing Index Checker
The same check against Bing, which ChatGPT search reads from.
How it works
What is the Bing Index Checker?
The Bing Index Checker is a free tool that searches Bing for one page URL and reports whether that page appears in Bing's organic results. Indexed means the page came back in Bing's results. It works for any public page, including pages on sites you do not own, with no Bing Webmaster Tools access needed.
How to use the Bing Index Checker
- Paste the full URL of one page, such as https://example.com/blog/post. The tool checks that exact page, not the whole site.
- Press Check Bing index. The tool searches Bing for that exact URL.
- If the result is locked, sign in or create a free hyperank account to see it. The check has already run.
- Read the status: Indexed or URL is Not Indexed, with the number of results scanned and the time of the check.
Why check Bing if my page is already in Google?
Because Bing keeps its own index, and being in Google tells you nothing about it. Bing crawls on its own schedule, and a page can rank in Google while Bing has never fetched it.
Bing's index also reaches further than Bing itself. Microsoft Copilot answers from Bing, and ChatGPT search draws on third-party search providers, Bing among them, alongside OpenAI's own crawler. A page missing from Bing loses those routes into AI answers.
Does Bing read robots.txt differently from Google?
Yes, in one way that matters: Bing honours Crawl-delay, and Google ignores it. A Crawl-delay: 10 in a shared User-agent: * group slows bingbot to one request every ten seconds and has no effect on Googlebot, which is a quiet way to end up thin in Bing.
Bing also reads its own User-agent: bingbot group when one exists. Directives written in a Googlebot group never apply to it. If you need a crawl limit for Bing, put it in a bingbot group where it is easy to see.
How do I get my site indexed by Bing?
Verify the site in Bing Webmaster Tools, submit your XML sitemap, and submit important URLs directly. Webmaster Tools can import a site you have already verified in Google Search Console, which saves the verification step.
Bing also supports IndexNow, a protocol Microsoft and Yandex launched in 2021. You host a key file on your site and send changed URLs, up to 10,000 in one request, and participating search engines share the submission. Google does not use IndexNow.
Questions
- Does ChatGPT use Bing?
- ChatGPT search draws on Bing among other sources: OpenAI says it uses third-party search providers alongside its own
OAI-SearchBotcrawler. A page that is missing from Bing loses one of the routes into ChatGPT's answers, so it is worth checking Bing as well as Google. - Why is Bing not indexing my site?
- Bing most often skips a site it has not discovered or cannot crawl freely. Check that robots.txt does not block bingbot or slow it with
Crawl-delay, that your sitemap is declared in robots.txt and submitted in Bing Webmaster Tools, and that nonoindexsits on the pages. - How do I submit my site to Bing for indexing?
- You submit a site to Bing through Bing Webmaster Tools: verify the site, add your sitemap, and use URL Submission for individual pages. For ongoing changes, IndexNow lets your site notify Bing automatically each time a page is added or updated.
- What is IndexNow?
- IndexNow is an open protocol that lets a site tell search engines a URL has changed, instead of waiting to be recrawled. Bing and Yandex support it, and one submission is shared among the engines that take part. Google does not use it.
- Is there a Bing indexing API?
- Bing offers a URL Submission API in Bing Webmaster Tools, and IndexNow works as an API for any site that hosts its key file. Both submit URLs for your own verified site. Neither reports the index status of a site you do not own, which is why this checker searches Bing instead.
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