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Over the last couple of months, there’s been a lot of talk about a new protocol called IndexNow. This new protocol automatically notifies search engines that support it about all the updates on your site. While initially skeptical about this development, we’ve decided to add an IndexNow integration to Yoast SEO Premium 18.8.
What is IndexNow?
The IndexNow protocol was launched in October 2021 by Microsoft Bing, Seznam, and Yandex. The goal of the protocol is to make it easier for site owners to ping search engines when changes in content happen on their sites. In theory, this should make the search engines less dependent on their crawling processes.