Here comes on WordPress the IndexNow official plugin
He made its debut in the catalog of plugins only a few days, had some minor updates and already counts over two thousand active installations and good reviews: Bing has accelerated times and released in early 2022 the first official WordPress plugin for IndexNow, the new fast and automatic indexing protocol that the search engine developed together with Yandex.
A WordPress plugin for IndexNow
Available for WordPress versions higher than 5.3, the Indexnow plugin allows the automatic sending of Urls from WordPress sites to multiple search engines without the need to register and verify your site with each of them.
After installation, in fact, the plugin will automatically generate and host the API keys on the site, detecting the creation/update/deletion of pages in WordPress and automatically sending the Urls in the background, so as to ensure that the “search engines always have the latest updates on your site,” as Microsoft writes.
From a practical point of view, the installation of the Indexnow plugin for WordPress is very simple and consists of a few steps:
- Access the WordPress admin panel for the WordPress site, click on “Plugin > Add New”.
- Search for “Indexnow Plugin” and install.
- Once installed, click “Activate” to enable the plugin.
- Go to the Indexnow admin page and click on “Get started!”.
Among the other useful functions and configuration possibilities reported by the developers there are:
- Activation/deactivation of the automatic sending function.
- Manually sending a URL to Indexnow.
- Display list of recent URL submissions from the plug-in.
- Proof of unsuccessful submissions from the list of recent submissions.
- Download recent URLs for analysis.
- Status on recent successful and unsuccessful submissions.
The journey of IndexNow goes now
The plugin represents a further step forward of the Indexnow project, on which Bing has been working for a long time together with other search engine protagonists.
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