Free IndexNow Submit Tool

What is IndexNow?

IndexNow is an open protocol for telling search engines that a URL changed. Instead of waiting days for a crawler to notice a new post or an updated price, your site sends the URL to an IndexNow endpoint and the engines know right away. Microsoft Bing and Yandex launched it in 2021. Today Seznam.cz, Naver, Yep and Amazonbot accept it as well, and a submission to one of them is shared with all the others.

IndexNow is a notification, not a guarantee. The engines still decide whether to crawl and index each page, but a fresh signal usually gets new and changed pages crawled much sooner than waiting for discovery.

How to use IndexNow in 3 steps

1. Generate a key. Any string of 8 to 128 letters, digits and dashes works. The Generate button above makes a random 32-character one.
2. Host the key file. Upload a UTF-8 text file named after the key, containing only the key, to your site root (https://yoursite.com/your-key.txt). This proves you own the site. A key file in a subfolder only covers URLs inside that folder.
3. Submit your URLs. Paste up to 100 URLs from the same site and press Submit. We check the key file first, then send the list and show each engine's response code.

The IndexNow API

The IndexNow API is a single HTTP endpoint. For one URL, a GET request is enough: https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=URL&key=KEY. For a batch, POST a JSON body with your host, key, key location and up to 10,000 URLs from that host:

POST https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8

{
  "host": "www.example.org",
  "key": "your-key",
  "keyLocation": "https://www.example.org/your-key.txt",
  "urlList": [
    "https://www.example.org/url1",
    "https://www.example.org/folder/url2"
  ]
}

Every engine accepts the same body on its own endpoint, for example https://www.bing.com/indexnow for Bing and https://yandex.com/indexnow for Yandex. This tool sends the same request to api.indexnow.org and to each engine so you can see who answered what.

IndexNow response codes

Bing IndexNow and Google

Bing is the biggest engine on IndexNow, and its index also feeds AI assistants that search the web, so a fast Bing pickup matters more than it used to. Bing Webmaster Tools shows the URLs it received through IndexNow (see how to submit your website to Bing). Google is the exception: it does not use IndexNow at all. For Google, the path is URL Inspection and Request Indexing in Search Console, one URL at a time. Read more in our IndexNow vs IndexMachine comparison.

IndexMachine covers both sides on autopilot. Its Chrome extension clicks Google's own Request Indexing in your Search Console every day, and every other engine gets unlimited IndexNow submissions from a key we generate for you (upload one file once). No lists to copy, no link farms. Of 1,841 pages IndexMachine requested, 1,418 (77%) were on Google, typically by our first check about 3 days after the request. Sign up free to see which of your pages Google hasn't indexed, or compare plans on the pricing page. If a page still isn't indexed, the why is my page not indexed checker finds the reason.