IndexNow and the future of web crawling

IndexNow is a new way to alert search engines when new or updated content is available. In this post, I describe how it’s different from web crawling or XML sitemaps and what it means for the future of web crawling.

What IndexNow is, how to use it, and what it means for the future of web crawling

In The Beginning of API Indexing, I explain that search engine crawling is insufficient, outdated, and wasteful. Inste…