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IndexNow URL Submission

Tell Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver to recrawl your new or updated pages. Generate a key, host the key file, and submit your URLs. Note: IndexNow does not include Google.

100% free no signup · Bing · Yandex engines · Up to 100 URLs per submission

What IndexNow does and doesn’t do. IndexNow notifies Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver — not Google — that your URLs changed, so they recrawl sooner. It affects discovery and freshness, not ranking. Your key is generated in your browser and is only sent as part of your own submission; we relay it to IndexNow and never fetch your site ourselves. To prompt Google, use Search Console’s URL Inspection tool instead.

How it works

Three steps, no surprises

Generate a key

Enter your domain and generate an IndexNow key in your browser. Reuse the same key for future submissions.

Host the key file

Create the key text file and upload it to your domain’s root, so the search engines can verify you own the site.

Submit your URLs

Paste the pages you’ve added or updated and submit. We relay them to IndexNow and report the result.

FAQ

IndexNow — questions, answered

Does IndexNow work with Google?

No. Google does not participate in IndexNow. The participating engines are Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver, and they share submissions across the network — so submitting once notifies all of them. To prompt Google to recrawl, use Google Search Console’s URL Inspection / “Request indexing” instead.

What is the key file and why do I need it?

IndexNow proves you control the domain by checking for a small text file hosted at your domain’s root. The file is named after your key (for example abc123.txt) and contains the key as its only content. The search engines fetch it when you submit; if it isn’t there, the submission is rejected. Generate a key here, create the file, upload it to your site, then submit.

Where exactly do I put the key file?

At the root of your domain, so it resolves at https://yourdomain.com/your-key.txt. The file’s contents must be exactly the key — nothing else. If you can’t place it at the root, host it elsewhere on the same domain and set the key location field to that URL.

What do the response statuses mean?

IndexNow returns a status: 200 (accepted and key validated) and 202 (accepted, validation pending) both mean success. 400 means a malformed request; 403 means the key couldn’t be verified (check the key file is live); 422 means the URLs don’t belong to the domain or the key doesn’t match its location; 429 means IndexNow is rate-limiting that domain. This tool translates each status into plain English.

Will this make my pages rank?

No. IndexNow only asks participating engines to recrawl the URLs sooner — it’s about discovery and freshness, not ranking. It’s useful after publishing or updating pages so Bing and Yandex pick up the changes faster. Ranking still depends on the page itself.

How many URLs can I submit?

Up to 100 per submission here. Submit only URLs that have genuinely changed — IndexNow is for added, updated or removed pages, not for resubmitting your whole site repeatedly. The tool de-duplicates your list and checks every URL belongs to the domain before sending.