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Michael299760657bcg
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May 20, 2023
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IndexNow POST for Dreamweaver pages

  • May 20, 2023
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Bing is using IndexNow to push updated pages so I wondered if anyone is using it to update Bing when a page is updated.

 

 

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    Nancy OShea
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    Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 20, 2023

    I've never needed it. 

    • Our sites are crawled automatically at regular intervals based on data contained in the XML sitemap's Priority and Change Frequency tags.  
    • Frequency options:
      • NEVER: Old news stories, press releases, etc
      • YEARLY: Contact, “About Us”, login, registration pages
      • MONTHLY: FAQs, instructions, occasionally updated articles
      • WEEKLY: Product info pages, website directories
      • DAILY: Blog entry index, classifieds, small message board
      • HOURLY: Major news site, weather information, forum
      • ALWAYS: Stock market data, social bookmarking categories
    • Priority options:
      • 0.8-1.0: Homepage, subdomains, product info, major features, major category pages.
      • 0.4-0.7: Articles and blog entries, minor category pages, sub-category pages, FAQs
      • 0.0-0.3: Outdated news, info that has become irrelevant
    • We've only needed new indexing on new sites or sites whose URLs have been moved/removed.

     

    Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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    Fabrice Canel - Bing
    Participant
    May 22, 2023

    Not true, Bing and Google ignore Priority, and Frequency (in Google words : https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap#xml Google ignores <priority> and <changefreq> values.).

    IndexNow allows websites to easily notify search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted. Using an API, once search engines are notified of updates they quickly crawl and reflect website changes in their index and search results. So encouraging you to adopt.

      Nancy OShea
      Community Expert
      Nancy OSheaCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      May 22, 2023

      The Last-Modified response HTTP header occurs at the server level.  The 'Last-Modified' response header contains information regarding the date and time that a webpage was last modified. This information is sent by the origin server (the web server that holds the original webpage) when web users or search engine crawlers access a page.

       https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Last-Modified

       

      Syntax:

      Last-Modified: <day-name>, <day> <month> <year> <hour>:<minute>:<second> GMT

       

      Like I said above, I've never needed to request indexing except on new sites.  Your mileage may vary.

       

      Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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