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IndexNow

A free way to tell search engines the moment a page is added, changed or deleted, instead of waiting for them to crawl again. Bing and several others support it; Google does not.

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How it works

You generate a key, host it as a text file on your site to prove ownership, and then send each changed URL, or up to 10,000 of them in one JSON request, to an IndexNow endpoint. Participating engines share submissions with each other, so one ping reaches Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yep and the rest. A success response only means the URL was received, not that it will be indexed.

Microsoft Bing and Yandex launched it in 2021. Google does not take part, so sitemaps and Search Console remain the way to reach it. Many CMS plugins, hosting platforms and CDNs (Cloudflare's Crawler Hints, for example) send pings automatically, and it suits sites whose pages change often, such as shops, listings and news.

IndexNow pricing

Free

Free to use; there is nothing to buy.

Approximate, checked September 2026.What the other tools cost

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