[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:  new
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  Awaiting
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Component:  General                              |     Version:
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  reporter-feedback has-patch has-     |     Focuses:
  unit-tests                                     |
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Comment (by joostdevalk):

 We've not implemented this in Yoast SEO yet for the same reason that @dd32
 is resisting implementing it in WordPress core: so far it's just Yandex
 and Bing, which for most sites is a negligible part of their traffic.

 As much as I appreciate @fabricecanel and his team at Microsoft, I want to
 see ''proof'' of this actually improving crawling for sites. I want to be
 sure that it actually improves either their search engine traffic or their
 bandwidth bills, before we add this to Yoast SEO. The cost of pinging
 multiple search engines when you publish a post or page is small on a per
 blog basis but it's non-zero if you consider doing it for millions of
 sites.

 As soon as I see actual data on this making crawling better for sites (so
 Bing would crawl it less, not more) or it actually improving traffic for
 sites (which seems like that should not be possible) I'm happy to
 implement this in Yoast SEO. I like the standard, especially as it's not
 based on oAuth for a change.

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