Submit new, updated or deleted URLs to IndexNow-participating search engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, Yep) in one request. IndexNow lets you push URL changes directly instead of waiting for crawls. Generate or verify your ownership key file, paste URLs, and submit up to 10,000 URLs per request. Google does not support IndexNow; use Search Console for Google indexing.
Run a free check ↓No. Google does not support IndexNow. Use Google Search Console URL Inspection or sitemaps for Google.
The engine received the URLs (200 OK or 202 Accepted with key validation pending). It does not guarantee indexing or ranking.
Usually the key file is missing, not accessible at the expected URL, or its content does not exactly match the key. Host <key>.txt at the site root (or set Key file location) with only the key inside.
Submit only URLs that really changed (new, updated, deleted). Avoid repeatedly resubmitting unchanged URLs; excessive unchanged submissions can get a key flagged.
Create a plain-text file named <key>.txt at your site root. The file content must be exactly the key. The engine fetches it to confirm you own the host; without it you get 403. No registration is required.
File name: https://example.com/YOUR_KEY.txt
File body: YOUR_KEY
Rules:
- Content is only the key (no extra spaces/newlines/BOM).
- If hosted elsewhere, set Key file location to the full URL; submitted URLs must sit under that path.Send up to 10,000 URLs per request, about one request per second. URLs must be absolute, on the same host, and should be submitted only when changed.
POST https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
{
"host": "example.com",
"key": "YOUR_KEY",
"keyLocation": "https://example.com/YOUR_KEY.txt",
"urlList": [
"https://example.com/",
"https://example.com/blog/new-post"
]
}Useful for quick tests or single URL pings.
GET https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fblog%2Fnew-post&key=YOUR_KEYRun from a terminal to see the real HTTP status code.
curl -i -X POST 'https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow' \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8' \
-d '{
"host": "example.com",
"key": "YOUR_KEY",
"urlList": ["https://example.com/", "https://example.com/blog/new-post"]
}'Submitting to one participating endpoint notifies other IndexNow engines (Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, Yep).
200 OK URLs received.
202 Accepted Received; key validation pending.
400 Bad Request Invalid format.
403 Forbidden Key invalid or key file missing/content mismatch.
422 Unprocessable URLs not on host, or key schema mismatch.
429 Too Many Requests Slow down (possible spam flag).We inspect the same HTML, directives, links, and performance data available to search engines.
Crawls are intentionally capped for predictable, respectful use of third-party websites.
AI recommendations are grounded in the measured audit and clearly separated from deterministic checks.