Frequently asked questions

It's a Google API that tells search bots a URL is new or updated. Google says it's officially for JobPosting and BroadcastEvent content, but in practice it works as a strong 'please crawl this URL now' hint for any page.

A web app that lets you sign in with Google and push URLs through the Indexing API and URL Inspection API from a single paste-box. Free daily quota covers casual use; a $9.99 pack covers bigger jobs like migrations and launches.

No tool can guarantee Google indexes a page — only Google decides. What we do is push your URLs through Google's own Indexing API using your own Search Console access. That's the strongest crawl signal you can send. Indexing is up to Google's quality classifier, not us.

Yes. We use Google's own OAuth flow — you sign in, we get scoped access to your verified Search Console properties, and we call the Indexing and Inspection APIs as you. No service accounts, no shared credentials.

Yes. The Bing tab pushes URLs through the IndexNow protocol (Bing, Yandex) and to Bing Webmaster Tools. Bing's retrieval index also feeds ChatGPT Search and is a major Perplexity source, so submitting to Bing is also how you reach those AI assistants.

Index pushes URLs to Google's Indexing API. Status bulk-runs URL Inspection so you can see what Google has on file. Audit deep-dives a single URL across PageSpeed Insights, structured data, and canonical/robots signals.

We don't charge for the free daily quota. When you need more, buy a one-time pack: $9.99 = 50 credits. Each credit = 1 URL submission to the indexer, status checker, or auditor. Free quota runs first, then credits cover the rest. You can spend up to 150 credits a day total, buy one pack at a time (up to 200 credits per day), and credits expire 30 days after purchase.

No. Every charge is one-time. Buy a pack, use it, buy another when you need it. We never auto-renew, never store your card, and never email you about your 'membership.'

Free quotas reset every day at midnight UTC: 20 indexer, 20 status checks, 20 audits per user. Beyond that, you spend credits — up to 150 credits per day per user. Google's own caps apply on top: 200 indexing publishes per day per project, 2,000 inspections per day per property.

Yes — 30 days after purchase. Daily cap of 150 credits/day plus the 30-day expiry means a single pack can't sit around indefinitely. Buy when you need it.

If a paid batch fails to submit (network error on our side, Google API outage), email support and we'll refund the batch. Submissions that complete but don't result in indexing aren't refundable — that's Google's quality decision, not a delivery failure.

No — one pack per checkout. If you need more, buy another pack (up to 200 credits per day total). The single-pack flow keeps refunds and expiry simple; for higher legitimate volume, email support and we'll lift the daily cap.

Because the Indexing API requires Google to verify that you own the URLs you're submitting. We use your own OAuth grant against your own Search Console — no shared service accounts to add as property owners, no manual setup per site.

openid, email, profile, webmasters.readonly, and indexing. webmasters.readonly is read-only access to your verified Search Console properties; indexing is the scope that lets us call the Indexing API on your behalf.

Your Google email and profile, an encrypted refresh token, the URLs you've submitted, and the results returned by Google's APIs (indexed verdict, last crawl, etc.). No page-content scraping, no analytics pixels, no marketing list.

Yes — Settings → Delete my data wipes your user record, every batch, and revokes the OAuth refresh token. You can also revoke our access at myaccount.google.com/permissions.

No third-party analytics, no marketing pixels, no Google Analytics. We log requests for debugging on the server side; those logs roll off automatically.

Submission to the Indexing API takes seconds and shows URL_UPDATED in our UI. Actual indexing by Google happens at Google's pace — usually minutes to hours for healthy domains, days to weeks for new or low-authority sites. Run Status checks the next day to verify.

You see the exact reason per URL — quota hit, property not verified, robots blocked, etc. Retry the batch from your history with one click; free retries respect your daily quota, paid retries open a new checkout.

The Indexing API gets the URL into the crawl queue. If Google's quality classifier decides not to index it, no amount of pushing changes that. Audit the page — typical fixes are: thin content, missing canonical, weak internal linking, or low overall site authority.

Only if the content changed meaningfully. Use the Pre-check (before paid batches) to see Google's current verdict per URL and skip the ones already indexed.

Yes — up to 50 URLs per paid batch. Use the Sitemap picker to pull URLs from your sitemap or sitemap index without copy-pasting.

Same underlying API. The difference is volume and batching: Search Console limits you to one URL at a time and a few requests per day. Our Status tool checks up to 50 URLs per batch and exports the results as CSV.

Indexing API: 200 publish requests per day per Google Cloud project (this is shared with the free indexer tier — we track it in real time). URL Inspection API: 2,000 inspections per day per property, 600 per minute per property.

JobPosting and BroadcastEvent. For these, the Indexing API is the official indexing channel and Google honors it strongly. For other content (blog posts, products, landing pages), it acts as a strong crawl hint but indexing is at Google's discretion.

Yes — IndexerNow is platform-agnostic. As long as your site is verified in Google Search Console and the URLs are publicly reachable, the platform doesn't matter. We have dedicated playbooks for the major ones in the blog.

Yes. After you sign in, IndexerNow lists every verified property your Google account owns and routes each URL to the right one automatically.

Each locale variant is a separate URL and can be pushed independently. Verify each locale's domain/subdirectory in Search Console, then submit. See the multi-region playbook in the blog for the full setup.

Verify it first — Search Console offers DNS TXT, HTML file, HTML tag, Google Analytics, and Google Tag Manager methods. IndexerNow can't submit URLs for properties you don't own.

Only if your robots.txt allows the answer-time AI crawlers (ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Meta-ExternalFetcher). Run our free AI bot auditor on your domain — we show you exactly which AI bots can reach you and which are blocked, and flag inconsistent stances.

Depends on your stance on training. The common 2026 pattern: block training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Applebot-Extended) to opt out of model training, but allow answer-time fetchers (ChatGPT-User, Claude-Web, PerplexityBot) to keep citation traffic. Our AI bot auditor flags when these two are inconsistent.

No. Google-Extended controls Gemini training and AI Overviews. Regular Googlebot — the crawler that feeds Search — is a separate user-agent and is unaffected.

A proposed markdown manifest you publish at /llms.txt (like robots.txt) that gives AI assistants a curated, link-rich tour of your site. It doesn't gate access — robots.txt does that. It helps AI assistants ground answers about your content with the right pages. IndexerNow generates one from your sitemap in /app/llms-txt.

Be indexed in regular Google Search first (AI Overviews draw from the same index), don't block Google-Extended in robots.txt, publish substantive content with clear extractable answers in the first paragraph, add FAQPage / HowTo / Article schema, and keep dateModified fresh. Citation candidates almost always come from the first organic page.

Both lean on Bing's retrieval index — submit to Bing via the IndexNow tab. Allow ChatGPT-User / OAI-SearchBot / PerplexityBot in robots.txt. Write pages with self-contained, quotable answers in the first viewport. Pair with an llms.txt for cleaner citations.

A 0-100 score we compute for any domain by checking 8 signals: HTTPS, sitemap, structured data, canonical, Open Graph, robots.txt AI bot policy, llms.txt presence, and a homepage title. It's a quick scan of obvious discoverability gaps across Google and AI search — try it free at /tools/discoverability-score.