IndexNow for URL submission. Anyone using it in ZenCart?

[wsworx]

I have been using SitemapXML and it has been doing a good job with submissions to Google, but Bing does not work.
I have been reading about IndexNow for site submissions, but I am unsure how to implement it in ZenCart.
Is anyone out there using IndexNow with their ZenCart install?

[barco57]

Bing doesn't take the anonymous sitemap submissions anymore that Sitemap XML sends.

https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/may...map-submission

[wsworx]

Bing doesn't take the anonymous sitemap submissions anymore that Sitemap XML sends.

https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/may...map-submission

Correct hence the desire to use IndexNow

[torvista]

Anyone done any sort of hacklet/starting point for this?

[apollowilcox]

wsworx: Were you able to incorporate indexnow? My SEO folks are pushing me adopt this. thanks.

[barco57]

I suspect it doesn't get any interest because Google still doesn't support indexnow.

[schoolboy]

wsworx: Were you able to incorporate indexnow? My SEO folks are pushing me adopt this. thanks.

Fire your "SEO" consultants. (Most of these "SEO experts" are charlatans, out there to steal your cash.) Google does not support indexnow. All you need do is:
1. Make sure your content is relevant, accurate, informative, and useful to your visitors. Avoid anything that is considered "duplicate content".
2. Your website obeys all HTML and WEB protocols.
3. Loads efficiently on all devices, with good imagery and has good overall operational efficiency.
4. Has logical and accurate navigation and no internal links that are "dead".
5. Via your Google account, alert Google to specific and important URL's on your website.

Google decides if your content is worth indexing... nothing you can do (other than the above) influences indexing.

[balihr]

Fire your "SEO" consultants. (Most of these "SEO experts" are charlatans, out there to steal your cash.) Google does not support indexnow. All you need do is:
1. Make sure your content is relevant, accurate, informative, and useful to your visitors. Avoid anything that is considered "duplicate content".
2. Your website obeys all HTML and WEB protocols.
3. Loads efficiently on all devices, with good imagery and has good overall operational efficiency.
4. Has logical and accurate navigation and no internal links that are "dead".
5. Via your Google account, alert Google to specific and important URL's on your website.

Google decides if your content is worth indexing... nothing you can do (other than the above) influences indexing.

Unfortunately, I'll have to disagree, but only with the highlighted part. Points 1-5 are spot on, of course. However, as much we all hate to admit it, Google is not the only search engine out there and the only God we bow to. Bing supports it and DuckDuckGo relies on Bing, then we have Yandex and Seznam and Naver. This list is likely to expand - rich snippets (structured data) were originally ignored by some search engines, nowadays it's a must-have. You might think the latter search engines are irrelevant, but Bing is still quite important and usually simply left out because of Google Almighty. It's an opportunity you're missing out on.

If the SEO company is presenting it as critical, then I agree they are to be reconsidered. But, if they're pushing for it as part of a campaign improvement, and as an opportunity to get more out organic SEO, then they're 100% right...

It's time for everyone involved in Zen Cart to stop rejecting modern technologies and simply adapt to the ever-changing industry. Instead of saying "it won't help with Google", the question we should be asking "where would it help" - if it does indeed help (without causing any harm, of course), then it's a feature worth having. If it opens the door to 2% more market than you had before, that's a 2% gain, not loss.

[schoolboy]

Unfortunately, I'll have to disagree, but only with the highlighted part.

The new tech we need to be optimising for is LLM's and AI. Already XAI's Grok is far superior to Google Search. Google's AI offerings are "adequate". For over a year now, I have been polishing up content on my websites to leverage how AI reacts to a wide range of queries relating to the stuff I sell. The results are very promising. (I opertate B2B mostly, so don't worry about the consumer market).
"SEO" has been a minefield for decades, and 99 out of 100 so-called "SEO experts" are charlatans.
While there are other search engines, Google covers around 93% worldwide (certainly in countries that matter to western sellers). Yandex is Russan, B a i d u is Chinese. I would avoid anything Russian - and unless China is a market for you, there's no point in optimising for b a I D U. Nobody uses Bing.

[simon1066]

... Nobody uses Bing.

Anecdotally I've heard that ChatGPT Search is becoming more popular and AFAIK it uses Bing search as a data source. Not that we're calling ChatGPT a 'body' ...yet.