Frequently Asked Questions

IndexNow is an open submission protocol developed by Microsoft Bing. It allows website owners to instantly notify search engines about new or updated content, rather than waiting for crawlers to discover it organically.

Yes, completely free. There is no registration required, no subscription fees, and no limits on submissions.

Click the Generate button on our homepage. The key is a 32-character hexadecimal string. You then host it as a text file on your domain root to verify ownership.

The IndexNow protocol supports up to 10,000 URLs in a single request.

IndexNow is supported by Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yep, and Amazon. Submitting to the global IndexNow endpoint notifies all participating engines automatically.

With IndexNow, URLs are typically indexed within 2-24 hours. Traditional crawling can take days or weeks.

No. InstantIndexNow is entirely web-based and works in any modern browser.

Search engines will reject the submission. Make sure the file is publicly accessible at the exact URL shown in the tool.

You can submit URLs for any domain where you can host the verification key file.

IndexNow helps search engines discover your content faster. Faster discovery is the first step toward indexing and ranking, but it does not directly affect ranking algorithms.

Our tool supports plain text input and .txt or .csv file uploads.

We use the official IndexNow protocol, an open standard supported by Microsoft Bing, Yandex, Naver, and others. No proprietary APIs, no gatekeeping.