Check your IndexNow key file and send new or updated URLs straight to Bing, Yandex and the other engines that support IndexNow.
How to use the IndexNow tester
- Enter your site and IndexNow key.
- Verify the key file is reachable.
- Paste the URLs to submit and send them.
What IndexNow does
Instead of waiting to be crawled, you tell supporting search engines the moment a page changes. Google doesn't use IndexNow; submit to Google through Search Console.
Reading the result
"Key file verified" means /your-key.txt on your site returned a 200 and contained exactly the key, nothing else. Not verified shows the status we got: 404 means the file isn't at the root, and 200 with no match usually means extra text, a different key or an HTML page served instead. After submitting, a pass means IndexNow answered 200 (OK) or 202 (accepted, key check still pending). Other answers: 400 is a bad request, 403 means the key wasn't valid, 422 means a URL doesn't belong to your host, and 429 means too many requests. Up to 100 URLs on the same host go per submission.
Getting the key file right
Use Generate for a random key, download the key file and upload it to your site root as-is. Keys are 8 to 128 letters, digits or dashes. The file must be plain text and public; check it isn't behind a login, a redirect to another domain or a firewall rule that blocks bots. Submit only URLs that changed or are new. Sending your whole sitemap every day doesn't make crawling faster and can get you rate-limited.