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Bing Crawl Issues: URLs Bing could not crawl cleanly
Lists every URL Bing flagged while crawling your site, with the issue types, HTTP code, inbound links and a severity, so you can fix the costly ones first.
Bing Crawl Issues lists every URL that Bing Webmaster Tools flagged while crawling your site: redirects, client and server errors, robots.txt blocks, DNS and timeout failures and malware. Each URL shows its issue types, the HTTP code Bing received, how many inbound links point at it and a severity, with the most linked URLs at the top. It is Bing's current list, so the date range does not apply here.
What each issue type means
AutoPSEO decodes the issue flags Bing sends with each URL and grades them:
| Issue type | Severity | What it usually means |
|---|---|---|
| 301 redirect | info | The URL redirects permanently. Fine, unless your own links or sitemap still point at it |
| 302 redirect | warning | A temporary redirect. If the move is permanent, a 301 tells search engines which address to keep |
| 4xx error | error | Not found, gone or forbidden. Restore the page or redirect it to the closest equivalent |
| 5xx error | error | Your server failed to answer. Check logs and hosting around the crawl dates |
| Blocked by robots.txt | warning | A robots.txt rule stops Bing from crawling the URL |
| Important URL blocked by robots.txt | error | Bing flags the blocked URL as important. Check that the rule is intended |
| Contains malware | error | Bing detected malicious content. Clean the site, then review it in Bing Webmaster Tools |
| DNS errors | error | Bing could not resolve your domain at crawl time |
| Timeout errors | error | The server took too long to respond |
A URL can carry several types at once. Its severity is the worst of them.
Reading the page
- Cards: URLs with issues, Errors, Warnings, 4xx and Blocked by robots.
- Issues by type charts how many URLs carry each flag.
- The table lists URL, Issue Types, HTTP Code, Inbound Links and Severity. Tabs are built from your data: All first, then one tab per issue type with its count. Search matches the URL or the issue name, and Show full URL switches paths to complete addresses.
- Copy table to clipboard and Export data as CSV take the rows under the active tab and search.
The same list, cut to the 50 most important URLs, sits at the bottom of Bing Overview.
Which issues to fix first
- Errors with inbound links. A 4xx or 5xx URL that other pages link to wastes those links and sends visitors to a dead end. Open the 4xx error or 5xx error tab: the table sorts by inbound links, so the most linked come first.
- Important URLs blocked by robots.txt. Remove or narrow the rule if the URL should be crawled. If it should stay private, make sure nothing important links to it.
- Malware. Treat as urgent: it affects visitors, not just rankings.
- 302s that are really permanent. Change them to 301s and update internal links to the final address.
Plain 301 redirects are informational. They need attention only when your sitemap or navigation still lists the old address.
After you fix something
Bing notes in its GetCrawlIssues reference that a fixed issue can take a few days to drop off the list, and AutoPSEO keeps Bing's answer for 12 hours on top of that. To have Bing look again sooner, submit the corrected URLs through IndexNow, which tells every participating search engine that a URL has changed.
For Google's view of the same URLs, use URL Inspection and the Index Tracker.