{"id":28518,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/verification-key\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:43","slug":"verification-key","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/verification-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Verification key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The IndexNow key proves you control the site. You generate it, place a file containing it on the site, and Yandex checks it on every API request. The contents and location should be known only to you and the search engine.<\/p>\n<h2>Key requirements<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>UTF-8 only.<\/li>\n<li><strong>8 to 128 characters.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Characters <code>a-z<\/code>, <code>A-Z<\/code>, <code>0-9<\/code> and <code>-<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>A TXT file, or another plain-text format \u2014 <strong>no HTML markup<\/strong> in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No special tool is needed: create one manually or copy a randomly generated key from the IndexNow site, which produces a fresh one on every reload.<\/p>\n<h2>Where to put it<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Site root (recommended).<\/strong> The filename must match the key exactly \u2014 key <code>EdD8dkm\u2026<\/code> in file <code>EdD8dkm\u2026.txt<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Any directory<\/strong>, with the location sent in <code>keyLocation<\/code> on every request. The scope restriction matters: <em>a key in <code>\/catalog\/<\/code> is valid only for URLs under <code>\/catalog\/<\/code><\/em> and invalid for <code>\/help\/<\/code>. This is a useful property when delegating submission rights for one section to a separate system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Multiple keys and multiple sites<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Subdomains need their own keys.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Several keys are allowed on one site \u2014 the recommended arrangement when different systems submit independently, each with its own key in the root.<\/li>\n<li><strong>One key may be reused across several domains.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Verifying the key<\/h2>\n<p>Submit a few URLs and read the response code. <strong>202 Accepted<\/strong> means the key is awaiting verification; wait and submit a few more. When it becomes <strong>200 OK<\/strong>, the key is verified and the addresses were accepted. If it stays at 202, keep waiting. A <strong>4xx<\/strong> code points at a specific fault in the reference table.<\/p>\n<p>This two-stage behaviour is the part that causes false alarms: an integration tested once, immediately after setup, will see 202 and look broken when it is merely new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IndexNow key proves you control the site. You generate it, place a file containing it on the site, and Yandex checks it on every API request. The contents and location should be known only to you and the search engine. Key requirements UTF-8 only. 8 to 128 characters. Characters a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and -. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":94,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[766],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28518","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\/28518","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\/28518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29123,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28518\/revisions\/29123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28518"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}