{"id":3034,"date":"2021-11-30T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/60000-websites-using-cloudflare-turned-on-indexnow-376579\/"},"modified":"2021-11-30T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:00:00","slug":"60000-websites-using-cloudflare-turned-on-indexnow-376579","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cherylroll.com\/60000-websites-using-cloudflare-turned-on-indexnow-376579\/","title":{"rendered":"60,000 websites using Cloudflare turned on IndexNow"},"content":{"rendered":"
IndexNow has now been turned on by over 60,000 websites that use Cloudflare in less than two months after IndexNow was announced by Microsoft<\/a>. IndexNow<\/a> is an open protocol that any search engine can participate in to enable site owners to have their pages and content instantly indexed by the search engine. <\/p>\n Microsoft and Cloudflare announced<\/a> today that “more than 60,000 unique websites that have opted-in to Crawler Hints. Those zones have sent Bing about billion Hints for when specific assets on their websites have changed and need to be re-crawled.” I turned it on<\/a> for the Search Engine Roundtable, my personal search blog, when it was announced.<\/p>\n How to turn it on. <\/strong>It literally is controlled by the flip of a switch in Cloudflare under the crawler hints section that you can access under the cache tab, then under the configuration section:<\/p>\n