What is IndexNow?
The short answer
IndexNow is an open protocol that lets a site notify participating search engines the moment a page is added, updated or deleted, instead of waiting to be recrawled.
IndexNow, explained
Engines such as Bing and Yandex support it; one ping reaches all participating engines.
Questions people ask about IndexNow
What is IndexNow?
IndexNow is an open protocol that lets a site notify participating search engines the moment a page is added, updated or deleted, instead of waiting to be recrawled.
Related terms
An XML sitemap is a machine-readable file listing a site's URLs, and when each last changed, submitted to search engines to help them discover pages.
IndexingIndexing is when a search engine stores a crawled page in its database so it can appear in results; a page that is not indexed cannot rank.
SEOSEO is the practice of making a website easier for search engines to crawl, understand and rank, so it appears for the searches its audience actually makes.
KeywordA keyword is a word or phrase people type into a search engine; SEO matches pages to the keywords their audience uses.
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