IndexNow now shares URLs between serps and the IndexNow API

When IndexNow First announced by Microsoft Bing in October, it hasn’t been to the point where participating search engines share URLs — but that’s no longer the case. Participating IndexNow search engines, which are still just Microsoft Bing and Yandex, now share URLs together.

This means if you submit a URL through IndexNow that is submitted through Microsoft Bing, it will also be instantly shared with Yandex. The same works the other way, send a URL to Yandex and Microsoft Bing will receive it immediately.

Also, Microsoft said you no longer need to use https://www.bing.com/IndexNow?url=url-changed&key=your-key or https://yandex.com/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your – key, to submit the urls you can use https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=url-changed&key=your-key and the urls will be shared with Bing and Yandex.

When Google is planning a takeover I suspect webmaster/site owner adoption will explode. Right now, according to Microsoft, 80,000 websites “have started publishing and are reaping the benefits of faster submission to indexing” through IndexNow — but not until November Number was 60,000 and all through the integration of Cloudflare (which we’re using here, by the way). So it seems that adoption has been slow?

But Microsoft released a IndexNow WordPress plugin So hopefully that helps a little?

In any case, the most important new pieces here are these three points:

(1) IndexNow’s protocol now shares URLs with participating search engines.

(2) api.indexnow.org can now be used to submit URLs to.

(3) IndexNow is now used by 80,000 websites.

Forum discussion at Twitter.