Microsoft Bing and Yandex announced a new initiative called IndexNow that enables website owners to ping IndexNow’s log for instant indexing with participating search engines. The participating search engines are currently only Bing and Yandex; Google is not on the list, and other search engines are not yet. There’s a website at IndexNow.org That sums […]
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John Mueller from Google was asked Twitter whether the sitemap ping tool is still working or not. John said that he “is not aware of any changes there and the URL appears to be responding to requests as usual”. Indeed it is official documentation still has this as an option. The documentation says, “Use the […]