Question

I just launched a site a few weeks ago, and I’ve been getting several of these errors recently.

What does this mean, is Bing trying to crawl my site? What can I do to fix this?

Answer 1

That file will simply help Bing with your site.

First, go to: https://ssl.bing.com/webmaster/SubmitSitePage.aspx and add your site.

You’ll then be prompted to download the BingSiteAuth.xml file. Add that somewhere in your mvc project (probably the root folder) and then, in Global.asax.cs in the RegisterRoutes method, add:

routes.IgnoreRoute("BingSiteAuth.xml")

If you choose to add the file somewhere other than the site root, make sure you map a route to it that looks like it’s at the root with:

routes.MapPageRoute("bingsiteauth",
                    "BingSiteAuth.xml",
                    "~/mysubfolder/BingSiteAuth.xml");