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Bing Webmaster Scan Failed: "Bing bot IP is blocked" – Solved with ChatGPT + Wordfence Whitelist

Hey everyone,

I recently added my site [baratpay.com](https://www.baratpay.com) to Bing Webmaster Tools, and ran a full site scan. To my surprise, I received this error:

**"Bing bot IP is blocked"** — even though my `robots.txt` allows Bingbot:

User-agent: bingbot
Allow: /

I turned to ChatGPT and got helpful guidance: the issue was likely due to firewall-level restrictions, not `robots.txt`.

Turns out, my WordPress security plugin (Wordfence) was blocking Bingbot IPs. Based on the advice, I added these IP ranges to the whitelist:

13.66.139.0/24
13.66.140.0/24
40.77.167.0/24
40.77.169.0/24
40.77.188.0/24
207.46.13.0/24
207.46.199.0/24
157.55.39.0/24

After this, I’ll re-run the scan and update this post with the result.

Just wanted to share this in case others run into the same issue — and would love to hear if I missed anything.

I'm now re-running the scan in Bing Webmaster Tools to confirm if this resolves the issue. I’ll update here with the result once it’s done.

**Is this the correct and complete approach? Let me know if I missed anything.**

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🟦 **About my site:**

[BaratPay](https://www.baratpay.com) is a secure payment platform helping Persian-speaking students and visa applicants — especially those without access to PayPal or Visa cards — to pay international fees. We also help users from restricted regions subscribe to AI services like ChatGPT.

Thanks in advance for your input!

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**Site info:** [BaratPay](https://www.baratpay.com) is a platform helping Persian-speaking students and visa applicants — especially those without access to PayPal or Visa — make secure international payments. We also help users subscribe to AI tools like ChatGPT in restricted regions.

Thanks in advance!

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