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Anyone tried the IndexNow feature yet? Does it benefit SEO anyhow?
IndexNow[1] is apparently an open source protocol and highly talked about industry standard in the SEO world. Unlike traditional search engine algorithm where the engine crawls the online pages one by one (`pull` process), IndexNow seeks to change this game by putting the onus on web publishers and bloggers to inform the engines of a site update (`push` process).
Presently, only Bing and Yandex have adopted this protocol and Duckduckgo is about to make its mind while Google is considering. What do you think? Is this beneficial for SEO?
[1]: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/indexnow-what-we-know/439679/
- lilouartz 2y agoLooks interesting. Seems low effort to implement. I will add it to my website.
- lilouartz 2y agoTook me a few minutes: // generate a key at https://www.bing.com/indexnow/getstarted const key = 'REPLACE_ME'; export const submitUrlsToIndexNow = async (urls: string[]) => { await fetch('https://api.indexnow.org/IndexNow', { body: JSON.stringify({ host: 'pillser.com', key, keyLocation: `https://pillser.com/${key}.txt`, urlList: urls, }), headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', }, method: 'POST', }); }; I now just auto submit when updates to products are published. Thanks!
- vishnuaniyan 2y agoIf you are using wordpress there is options in the SEO plugins to do the same like Yoest and Rankmath