{"id":28517,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/about-the-indexnow-protocol\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:43","slug":"about-the-indexnow-protocol","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/about-the-indexnow-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"About the IndexNow protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IndexNow lets a site notify Yandex directly about pages that were created, updated or deleted, instead of waiting for the robot&#8217;s next crawl. It is an HTTP and JSON API, authenticated by a key file on the site that Yandex checks on <strong>every request<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>What it is for, and what it is not for<\/h2>\n<p>Yandex answers this precisely in its own FAQ:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Do not submit pages that changed before you adopted the protocol.<\/strong> Start from the moment you enable it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Do not submit every URL on the site.<\/strong> Only new, changed or deleted pages. For telling Yandex about the site as a whole, the sitemap or Metrica-tag crawling are the right tools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For a site of a few pages, use the reindexing tool instead.<\/strong> IndexNow is infrastructure for sites that change constantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And the caveat that governs expectations: <strong>submitting a page does not guarantee it will be indexed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>The setup<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Generate a key and place the file on the site.<\/li>\n<li>Submit URLs \u2014 <code>GET<\/code> for one, <code>POST<\/code> for many, up to 10,000 per request.<\/li>\n<li>Or use a CMS plugin that does both.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>Why it is worth doing<\/h2>\n<p>The value is not speed for its own sake. It is the <strong>deletion<\/strong> case that most sites handle badly: a removed product or expired listing normally lingers in results until the robot happens to revisit. IndexNow reports it immediately. For classifieds, events, stock-driven catalogues and news, that is the difference between accurate results and stale ones.<\/p>\n<h2>Verifying it actually works<\/h2>\n<p>The Searchable pages report records the <strong>discovery source<\/strong> for each page, and IndexNow appears there as one of them. If submissions return success and no page shows IndexNow as its source, the integration is reporting a lie \u2014 which is exactly the failure a plugin can hide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IndexNow lets a site notify Yandex directly about pages that were created, updated or deleted, instead of waiting for the robot&#8217;s next crawl. It is an HTTP and JSON API, authenticated by a key file on the site that Yandex checks on every request. What it is for, and what it is not for Yandex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":93,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[766],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28517","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-indexnow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28517\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28517"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}