[FR] - IndexNow Support

[bryandugan]

Our SEO agency advised me to add IndexNow to my Craft Websites. Bing Webmaster Tools recommends that it get set up for faster indexing.

I would like to have a straightforward connector setup that will write to IndexNow each time a page is published, updated, or deleted, though I see some issues with getting it set up due to the setup forcing users to add a txt file to the web index. Maybe have some quick documentation to get users to add the file to the web index before enabling?

This could be setup as a custom module on my end, but I feel it would be better to have it included in SEOMatic. There is an official plugin that Microsoft Created for WordPress, and it looks like Yoast, and other popular plugins also have it baked in.

[khalwat]

I might consider adding this at some point; I'm just unsure how popular Bing is as a search engine.

As of January 2025, Bing's market share was:
Global desktop search: 12.23%
US search engine: 7.85%
In January 2025, Google had the largest share of the global desktop search market at 78.83%

[bryandugan]

Thanks for considering looking into it! I agree with what you're saying. I've also completely ignored supporting Bing until this year. During my annual reporting, I was surprised to find about 20% of our site search traffic is from Bing (from GA4). The main reason why I was asked to consider adding IndexNow and supporting Bing was that ChatGPT uses Bing as its default search.