: Bing Webmaster Tools finds my Wordpress RSS feed and uses it as a sitemap I have submitted my Wordpress XML sitemap to Bing Master Tools. It is properly crawled and working as expected. Bing

@Pope3001725

As you've observed, Bing respects/crawls both RSS and xml sitemaps for indexing and doesn't really distinguish the two formats for priority.


You could add a priority ranking/value to the rss feed urls in your xml sitemap so that Bing's bots don't crawl them with such precedence.
Refer to the Sitemap XML Format standards for an example with priority setting, and more about XML attributes for your listed pages.
Per Bing's Sitemap Best Practices blog post,


be sure you've doublechecked/set properties and attributes in your RSS feed to help ensure how they are interpreted.
minimize the number of RSS feeds on your site/consolidate them and show more than just the 10 most recent posts when applicable.

If you absolutely need to prevent Bing from crawling your rss feed and indexing based on it, you could consider blocking the rss feeds from the Bing crawler in robots.txt, but I wouldn't recommend it. Instead- just configure your XML Sitemap to be submitted regularly (either daily, a few times a week, or weekly) to the search engines.

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