Bing’s IndexNow Has A WordPress Plugin

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by Clint ButlerDigitaleer

(SEO This Week) – Back in October of 2020 Microsoft announced a new indexing protocol partnership and technology with Yandex called IndexNow. This was a single protocol/service that webmasters could submit their URLs to and get indexed in both of those particular search engines.

It wasn’t long after that Google announced that they were “looking into” the new protocol for future implementation, however, since they already have the Google Indexing API, it’s not expected to adopt IndexNow. At the very least, even if they use it, I wouldn’t expect them to make much of a fuss about doing so.

There are instructions on how to submit to the API that is reasonably simple, however, Cloudflare has an integration that they created very early on after the launch announcement. However, it has yet to be tested to see if their integration is really helping to index.

The IndexNow API itself also needs to be tested to learn about its indexing rate and time to index after submission numbers.

Assuming those tests result in some positive numbers, IndexNow could be a game-changer for business owners because they can potentially increase their reach while working towards being less dependent on Google for website traffic.

That all being said, the Bing team has announced that there is now a WordPress plugin to help people take advantage of the new service.

There are conversations around talking about future integration with more technologies. Considering how simplistic the implementation seems to be based on the documentation it is expected to be available to more services considerably faster than Google’s Indexing API.

Plus it doesn’t have the restrictions Google’s API currently has, which is limited to Job Postings and Broadcast Events.

So, while proper testing needs to be done to see how good this new API is at getting pages indexed, with as simple as implementation is, there is no point in not using it.

Clint Butler
Clint Butlerhttps://www.seothisweek.com
With more than 15+ years’ of Agency Owner experience working as an advanced SEO, I help companies scale their business with the best content strategies and digital marketing campaigns.

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