It would be great to have a way to host a txt key file at the root for IndexNow. This service will become crucial for everyone moving forward. Bing, Yandex and others already use it and Google is currently trialing it.
The service currently requires that the api key file be hosted at the root of your domain. Trying to do a redirect from root to an alternate host or to the Weblow assets folder doesn't work either as suggested in the forum for files such as ads.txt since the file can't be hosted on an alternate domain or sub-domain than the one you are trying to index.
This missing feature prevents anyone from using a third-party service such as ContentKing, which monitors and submits urls of changed content to IndexNow. ContentKing simply states that the keys are invalid.
Mitch Fortier
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@webflow please add IndexNow - it's very umportant!
We regret having chosen Webflow given all the limitations.
Our workaround for now was storing the .txt file elsewhere (we use a public S3 bucket) and setting up a 301 redirect in the Webflow hosting site config). This seems to do the job.
Please add this feature.
I have created a Python Notebook in order to read our sitemap.xml file and push the list of URL to IndexNow
This is a link to my Google Drive Collab file, you can copy it and add your URL and crendentials
https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1uMaDUPWkdwyIAHfEyJcGy1DqHrUj6uN8?usp=sharing
The only drawback is that you have to run it by hand from time to time, but it's better than nothing...
Please add this feature ASAP
This is vital, when is this being added?
I was wondering if we could add Bing’s IndexNow feature to our Webflow site. I searched around but couldn’t find anything related to this topic. Would love to hear if anyone has insights or experience with this!
@webflow! Please! IndexNow is crucial. I'll need to move to a provider that supports this if this takes any longer
Wait... it's end of 2024 and there is still no solution for this? This is crucial!
What is te best way to resolve this problem? I want to connect Ahrefs IndexNow to my Webflow website. I don't know a way to work around it... :(:(
Please Webflow. Our site needs this very badly and our other client is pushing us to resolve this!!
Now getting hints from Semrush to set up IndexNow - agree that being able to host the API key for IndexNow would be a useful feature for WebFlow.
Geez—I set up indexnow and got to the step of adding the key.txt file, and Bam! I flattened my face on a hard door! How hard is it to add a setting on the dashboard?
Webflow should consider adding this functionality for IndexNow, especially with a lot of B2B users now defaulting to Bing search engines. Many corporations have managed Windows laptops running Microsoft 365 services with Copilot/ChatGPT integrated Edge Browser, which defaults to Bing.
Also with the new Google Search ruling, Google may soon no longer hold the monopoly for search.
https://ahrefs.com/blog/indexnow-yep-ahrefs/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-the-google-search-monopoly-ruling-means/
That should'nt be that difficult. I don't understand why it's not moving.
This is a big shortfall and adds extra time having to submit the sites we look after each time we make updates to the content (which is frequently). Is this even on the list to get added to webflow?
No movement on this whatsover? I wish the WF devs would spend a little bit of time with an app like Ahrefs and just address all the little SEO issues in order to improve the site score of a WF site. Getting Indexnow to work would be a great start.
Surprised no one from the Webflow team has tried to gaslight SEO the pros by saying IndexNow doesn't matter
Guys why in the SEO tab you don't add some new text fields like robot.txt?
We need to insert ads.txt too... create a default file or let we create more txt files like robot.txt please.
Any movement here? Can't add this without being able to upload a file. :(