IndexNow

Automatically notify search engines (Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver) the moment your URLs change — without waiting for a crawler to find them. IndexNow is a push protocol: you submit, search engines act, discovery lag drops from days to minutes.

CorpusIQ pairs IndexNow with your existing connectors. When a Shopify product goes live, a blog post publishes, or a docs page updates, CorpusIQ can surface those URLs and hand them to IndexNow in one step.

What it unlocks

• Instant crawl triggers — submit new/updated/deleted URLs the moment they change
• Batch submission — up to 10,000 URLs per POST, mixing http and https
• Verified ownership — host a single text file once; search engines cache it
• Multi-engine reach — one submission propagates to all IndexNow-compatible engines
• SEO closed-loop — combine with Search Console or Semrush to track ranking improvement after submission

Before you connect

• Your website domain (e.g. www.corpusiq.io)
• An IndexNow API key — minimum 8 characters, alphanumeric + dashes
• Generate a key at indexnow.org or create your own random hex string (e.g. openssl rand -hex 16)
• Ability to host a .txt file at your domain root or at a custom path
• About 5 minutes

No account signup required. IndexNow is an open protocol.

How to connect

Step 1 — Generate your key

# Generate a 32-hex-character key (recommended length)
openssl rand -hex 16
# Example output: a3f9b2c1d4e5f678901234abcdef5678

Step 2 — Host the key file

Create a UTF-8 text file named {your-key}.txt containing only the key on the first line.

Option A — Root directory (simplest):

https://www.corpusiq.io/a3f9b2c1d4e5f678901234abcdef5678.txt

File contents:

a3f9b2c1d4e5f678901234abcdef5678

Option B — Custom path (specify keyLocation in each request):

Place the file anywhere on the same host and include the full URL as keyLocation in your IndexNow requests.

Step 3 — Verify the file is live

curl -s https://www.corpusiq.io/a3f9b2c1d4e5f678901234abcdef5678.txt
# Should return the key string

Step 4 — Add credentials to CorpusIQ

1. Open your CorpusIQ dashboard and click Connections.
2. Find IndexNow and click Connect.
3. Enter your domain and API key.
4. Save. CorpusIQ validates the key file before storing.

How IndexNow works

IndexNow is a one-way push protocol. You call the search engine's endpoint; they crawl your key file to verify ownership; then they re-index your URL.

Single URL (GET):

https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=https://www.example.com/page&key=your-key

Batch URLs (POST JSON):

POST https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "host": "www.example.com",
  "key": "your-key",
  "urlList": [
    "https://www.example.com/page1",
    "https://www.example.com/page2"
  ]
}

A 200 response means the engine received your submission. It is not a guarantee of immediate indexing — it removes the discovery bottleneck.

Supported engines (all reachable via api.indexnow.org): Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver.

What CorpusIQ can do with it

Action	Example prompt
Submit a single URL	"Submit https://www.corpusiq.io/blog/new-post to IndexNow"
Submit a batch	"IndexNow the 12 Shopify product pages I updated today"
Cross-source submit	"Find GA4 pages with zero impressions and submit them to IndexNow"
SEO loop	"Submit our new blog posts to IndexNow, then check Search Console in 48h"

Questions you can ask

Submit https://www.corpusiq.io/changelog to IndexNow so Bing picks it up today.

I updated 5 product pages on Shopify. Submit them all to IndexNow.

Which of our pages have never appeared in Search Console? Submit them to IndexNow.

After submitting to IndexNow, remind me to check Search Console impressions in 2 days.

Troubleshooting

• HTTP 400 — URL is malformed or not on the declared host. Verify the host field matches the domain in every URL exactly (including www prefix if used).
• HTTP 403 — Key file not found or content mismatch. Re-check the file is publicly accessible and contains only the key string (no trailing spaces or extra lines).
• HTTP 422 — Too many URLs in one request (max 10,000) or key format invalid (must be 8–128 alphanumeric/dash characters).
• HTTP 429 — Rate limited. IndexNow guidelines allow up to 10,000 URLs/day per domain. Spread submissions if you have a large site.
• Key file caching — search engines cache your key file. If you rotate the key, allow up to 24 hours for the new file to be picked up before submissions resume.

Notes

• IndexNow is read-write from the network's perspective (you are pushing to external endpoints), but CorpusIQ never writes to your CMS or website.
• Submission acknowledges receipt only — actual re-crawl timing is at the search engine's discretion.
• Combine with Search Console and Semrush to measure ranking lift after submission.

---

*

---

This Hermes repo is one of the largest structured collections of public AI, automation, business, and technology documentation. Content remains attributed to original authors and repositories. Indexed and organized by www.CorpusIQ.io.