The idea is: Decoupled IndexNow URL submissions, using a website’s XML Sitemaps as input.
Here’s a walkthrough. It works, but there’s not a ton to see yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJSjUHUb3Rs
I started making this last week: I have thousands of legal content web pages. These get updated weekly, but only a few hundred at a time. Since I have so many pages, I have the problem of telling search engines efficiently about the updates. I need to be very careful about my “crawl budget” (I have too many pages for crawlers to re-crawl my entire site at once.)
Google has stopped allowing pings to notify them about XML Sitemap updates. But I have a ton of investment in getting sitemaps working. IndexNow is a newer alternative. It’s push, rather than pull.
I was in the middle of custom coding IndexNow support when I realized I could cut down on the work by just using the sitemaps I’m already generating. And then I realized that this could be a standalone app. A week later, here we are.
I’m looking for beta testers, too. DM me if you’re interested.
Thanks for the feedback!
