AdIdxBot
AdsVerify AdIdxBot IP Address
Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Microsoft, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.
AdIdxBot is Microsoft’s advertising-focused crawler used to evaluate landing pages associated with Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads). It performs targeted fetches to assess page load speed, relevance, redirects, content quality, and policy compliance. These checks help determine ad quality scores, eligibility, and overall user experience. Blocking AdIdxBot, may limit Microsoft’s ability to review landing pages, potentially affecting ad performance. Crawl activity is selective and low-volume, typically triggered when advertisers create or modify campaigns. Its purpose is to ensure that ad destinations meet Microsoft’s standards for safety, usability, and relevance. RobotSense.io verifies AdIdxBot using Microsoft’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine AdIdxBot traffic is identified.
User Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.0 Mobile/11A465 Safari/9537.53 (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows Phone 8.1; ARM; Trident/7.0; Touch; rv:11.0; IEMobile/11.0; NOKIA; Lumia 530) like Gecko (compatible; adidxbot/2.0; +http://www.bing.com/bingbot.htm)Robots.txt Configuration for AdIdxBot
AdIdxBotUse this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target AdIdxBot.
Recommended Configuration
Our recommended robots.txt configuration for AdIdxBot:
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Allow: /Completely Block AdIdxBot
Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Disallow: /Completely Allow AdIdxBot
Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Allow: /Block Specific Paths
Block this bot from specific directories or pages:
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/Allow Only Specific Paths
Block everything but allow specific directories:
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/Set Crawl Delay
Limit how frequently AdIdxBot can request pages (in seconds):
User-agent: AdIdxBot
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10Note: This bot officially honors the Crawl-delay directive.