Push updates instantly with IndexNow

Why it matters

Your sitemap shows content changing within the last month, so you're an active site — but a normal crawl cycle can take days to notice. IndexNow lets you notify Bing (which powers Microsoft Copilot) and Yandex the moment a URL changes, so updates surface in those engines' answers in minutes instead of after the next crawl. It's a one-time setup plus a single HTTP ping on publish.

The fix

Host a key file at your root, then ping the API whenever a URL changes:

```
# 1. Generate a key (32+ hex chars) and host it at:
#    https://example.com/<key>.txt   (file contents = the key)

# 2. On publish/update, GET:
https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=https://example.com/changed-page&key=<key>
```

You can submit up to 10,000 URLs per request via the bulk JSON endpoint. Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver share the IndexNow network, so one ping reaches all of them.

References

• IndexNow documentation
• Bing: IndexNow