Today I Learned - Rocky Kev

TIL IndexNow

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TAGS: seo search

Today I learned about IndexNow.

To streamline this process, Microsoft Bing released a new initiative in October 2021 called IndexNow.

IndexNow is an open-source protocol that allows website publishers to instantly index across participating search engines, updating results based upon the latest content changes.

Simply put, it’s a simple ping that notifies search engines that a URL and its content have been added, updated, or deleted.

via https://www.searchenginejournal.com/indexnow-what-we-know/439679/

How to submit URL

To submit a URL using an HTTP request (replace with the URL provided by the search engine), issue your request to the following URL:

https://<searchengine>/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

// IndexNow:
https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

// Microsoft Bing
https://www.bing.com/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

// Seznam.cz
https://search.seznam.cz/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

// Yandex
https://yandex.com/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key

You can submit up to 10,000 URLs per post, mixing http and https URLs if needed.

https://www.indexnow.org/documentation
Originally via https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/

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