Bing URL Submission: Submit via IndexNow in Seconds

Bing accepts URLs two ways. IndexNow is a single API call you can automate on every publish; Bing Webmaster Tools lets you paste URLs by hand after verifying your site. For anything you publish regularly, IndexNow is the better habit.

Three steps, as defined in the IndexNow documentation:

1. Create a key — 8 to 128 hexadecimal characters. The tool above generates one.
2. Host it at https://yoursite.com/<key>.txt, containing only the key, so engines can confirm you own the site.
3. Submit URLs that were added, updated or deleted. One request can carry up to 10,000 URLs; this tool takes 100 at a time.

Submitting to one engine is enough. According to the IndexNow FAQ, every submission is shared with all participating engines — currently Bing, Yandex, Seznam.cz, Naver, Yep and Amazon. Google is not on that list.

No. An HTTP 200 only means the engine received your URLs; a 202 means they arrived and your key is still being verified. Each engine still decides whether to crawl and index each page.

What IndexNow buys you is speed of discovery. We submit every new aeoeye.com page through it, and every response we checked over the past three months was a 200: the list arrived. The crawl itself still happens on each engine's schedule.

Bing runs its own index, separate from Google's. IndexNow reaches it — and five other engines — for the cost of one key file and an API call per change.

Make sure the URLs you submit are worth indexing: each should return 200, be crawlable and point to itself as canonical. Check them first with the HTTP status checker, and keep your sitemap current as the long-term backup to IndexNow.