IndexNow log, November 5, 2026
- webcore.pro102 pages, 202 Accepted
- A client's coaching site63 pages, 202 Accepted
- Publishes held up0
Each list went out seconds after its publish finished.
IndexNow
Every Change You Publish Reaches Bing in Seconds
You fix a price, add a service or publish a new page. Then you wait, because a search engine only finds out when its crawler happens to come back. IndexNow skips the wait. The moment your publish is live, WebCore sends Bing and the other IndexNow search engines a list of exactly what changed.
- Sends only the pages that changed, every time you publish
- Nothing to install, no key to manage and no button to press
- Shared with every search engine that takes part in IndexNow
- Runs after your site is live, so it never slows a publish down
On every site with its own domain, from Essential up. Start your site free, no card needed.
Search engines don't know you changed anything until they come back
Every search engine sends its crawler around the web on its own schedule. A big news site gets visited all day. A local business site waits its turn, and nobody tells you when that turn comes.
So the new service page sits there unseen, and the old price keeps showing in results after you've changed it. By the time a crawler reads your seasonal offer, the season can be over.
Google lets you ask for a recrawl in Search Console, one address at a time. IndexNow works the other way around. You tell the search engines what changed, all of it at once, and they decide when to visit.
Most owners never do either, because it's one more chore after the real work is done. And if you change 10 things in an afternoon, nobody wants to paste 10 addresses into a form. That's why WebCore does it for you, on every publish.
How IndexNow works on your WebCore site
You don't set anything up. Here's what happens every time you publish.
The first time your site publishes, it gets its own IndexNow key, 32 characters long. The key file goes live with your site, so search engines can check the list really comes from you.
You publish, from Studio or by asking your agent in a message.
Once the new version is live, WebCore compares your sitemap with what IndexNow last accepted and picks out every page that's new or changed.
It sends that list to IndexNow, which shares it with every search engine that takes part.
The answer is saved on your site. If IndexNow is busy, WebCore waits up to 30 seconds and tries once more, and anything that wasn't accepted goes again with your next publish.
Built into the publish, so it never gets forgotten
Only the pages that changed
A new article, an edited service page, a page your agent rewrote last night. The list carries what changed since the last accepted one, so search engines aren't asked to recheck your whole site every time.
Your whole site on day one
The first list sends every page in your sitemap, so a site that just moved to WebCore gets announced in full.
Every IndexNow search engine
6 search engines take part: Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yep and Amazon. One submission is shared with all of them, as the IndexNow FAQ explains.
Never holds up a publish
It runs after your site is live. If a list fails to send, your publish has already finished and nothing on your site changes.
Proof the site is yours
Search engines only trust a list from a site that serves its own key file, so nobody else can send pages in your name.
Every client site, for agencies
Agencies that run client sites on WebCore get IndexNow on each one, with its own key and nothing to set up per client.
What happened when we switched it on
We switched IndexNow on for webcore.pro and for a client's business coaching site on November 5, 2026, then published both. These numbers come from that day's logs.
102 pages
Went out for webcore.pro on its first list: the whole sitemap, as planned.
63 pages
Went out for the coaching site on its first list, 68 seconds later.
202
Was IndexNow's answer for both sites. It means the list arrived and was accepted.
0 delays
For either publish. Each list left after its site was already live.
Bing still decides when to crawl each page. What changed is that it knew about all of them the same minute they went live.
What IndexNow doesn't do
- It doesn't reach Google. Google isn't one of the search engines in IndexNow, so WebCore keeps your sitemap current for Google, and Search Console still lets you ask for a recrawl.
- It doesn't rank a page. IndexNow says it plainly: submitting a URL does not guarantee immediate indexing. It cuts the wait, and the page still has to earn its spot.
- It needs your own domain. The key file has to live on the same address as your pages, so a site on a temporary address gets IndexNow once it moves to its own domain.
IndexNow questions owners ask
What is IndexNow?
It's a way for a website to tell search engines that a page was added, changed or deleted, instead of waiting for them to notice. 6 search engines take part: Bing, Yandex, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yep and Amazon.
Does Google use IndexNow?
No, Google isn't one of the search engines that take part. For Google, WebCore keeps your sitemap up to date, and you can still request indexing for a page in Search Console.
Do I have to set anything up?
No, your site gets its key on its first publish, and every publish after that sends the pages that changed. There's nothing to switch on.
Which plans include IndexNow?
Every WebCore site on its own domain, from Essential at $99 a month up. A site on a temporary address gets it once it moves to its own domain.
Will IndexNow make my site rank higher?
Not by itself. It cuts the wait between your change and a search engine knowing about it. Ranking still comes from the page itself and from the sites that link to it.
Can a failed list break my site?
No, the list goes out after your publish is live. If it fails, WebCore waits up to 30 seconds and tries once more, and anything that wasn't accepted goes again with your next publish.
How soon does Bing crawl a page after IndexNow?
Bing decides. IndexNow tells it the page changed, and the search engine weighs its own crawl schedule and quality signals before it visits, as the IndexNow FAQ explains. What you lose is the part where it didn't know.
Does IndexNow use my sitemap?
Yes, WebCore rebuilds your sitemap on every publish, then reads it to work out which pages are new or changed since the last list was accepted.
Do agencies get it for every client?
Yes, every client site on WebCore with its own domain sends its own list, under its own key.
Make the change. Let Bing hear about it right away.
Name your agent and build your site. From your first publish on, every change goes out to IndexNow on its own.
On every site with its own domain, from Essential up