How to submit a URL to Bing with IndexNow

How do I submit a URL to Bing with IndexNow?

To submit a URL to Bing with IndexNow: (1) generate an IndexNow key, (2) host it in a text file named <key>.txt at your site root, and (3) send a request to https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow with your host, key and URL list. Bing crawls the submitted URLs within minutes, and because Bing and Yandex share the IndexNow signal, one submission reaches multiple engines. IndexPing generates the key, the key file and the ready-to-run curl and JSON payloads for you.

Step 1 — Generate an IndexNow key

An IndexNow key is any hexadecimal string of 8–128 characters. It proves you control the site. Generate one with IndexPing (it runs in your browser, nothing is stored) or use any secure random hex string.

Step 2 — Host the key file at your site root

Create a text file named exactly <yourkey>.txt whose only contents are the key itself, and upload it so it is reachable at https://yourdomain.com/<yourkey>.txt. Search engines fetch this file to verify ownership before accepting your submissions.

Step 3 — Send the submission

For a single URL, a simple GET works:

https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow?url=https://yourdomain.com/your-page/&key=yourkey

For many URLs at once, POST a JSON body with your host, key and a url list to https://api.indexnow.org/indexnow. IndexPing builds both the curl command and the JSON payload for you — copy, paste, run.

What a successful submission looks like

HTTP 200 or 202 means the submission was accepted.
403 means the key file could not be verified — re-check its name, location and contents.
422 means a URL does not match the host or the key is invalid.
Submissions are free and effectively unlimited; just submit genuinely new or updated URLs.

Put it into practice

Generate your IndexNow key, build the submission payload and check index status — free, in your browser.

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Frequently asked questions

Does submitting to Bing via IndexNow also reach Google?+

Not directly — Google does not consume IndexNow. But Bing, Yandex, Seznam and Naver do, and getting crawled fast elsewhere plus a clean sitemap and internal links is the fastest practical path to Google noticing the same fresh page.

How many URLs can I submit?+

IndexNow allows large batches (commonly up to 10,000 URLs per request). In practice, submit only genuinely new or changed URLs — spamming unchanged URLs provides no benefit.

Do I need a new key for every submission?+

No. Generate one key, host it once, and reuse it for all future submissions from that domain.