[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #52900: Instantly index WordPress web sites content in Search Engines

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#52900: Instantly index WordPress web sites content in Search Engines
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 Reporter:  fabricecanel                         |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  feature request                      |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:
Component:  General                              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:  maybelater
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback has-patch has-     |     Focuses:
  unit-tests close                               |
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Comment (by joostdevalk):

 I disagree with the decisions being proposed here and I think we should
 reverse them.

 I think this is a very good thing to support because it's a much more
 efficient way of dealing with search engine indexation. Right now, search
 engines literally check pages every day to see whether they've changed.
 This could change that behavior to something more sensible. We should all
 want this process to become more efficient. If you don't agree with me, or
 have doubts about what I'm saying, I'd urge you to look at a site's server
 logs for a few hours, filtered by bots, and you'll know why I think this
 is needed.

 I think there have been a couple of miscommunications here:

 1. This doesn't require an API key. It requires you to generate a key for
 a site, but you can generate that key yourself, so you can generate a key
 and use that to sign your requests, then have the key in a file on your
 domain to prove you own the domain. See
 [https://www.indexnow.org/documentation the documentation], it's not an
 API key in the classic sense.
 2. This API is not comparable to Google's Indexing API. If Google is ever
 going to use an API for this sort of thing, I'd expect it to be IndexNow.

 The fact that Google doesn't use IndexNow is a pity. I would like to see
 that change. I think the chance of that changing if/when WordPress
 includes IndexNow becomes much bigger. But even when it doesn't, this
 already improves the efficiency of crawling for many other search engines;
 **their market share doesn't matter: they already ''all'' crawl your
 site**. If we can improve their efficiency, that's good for the entire
 ecosystem.

 That's also why I disagree with @johnbillion; I think this ''does''
 benefit the majority of WordPress users.

 So, I would say: reopen and include on the roadmap ASAP.

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