You may add a second technique to inform search engines about your new URLs and content updates by using Google’s Crawler Hints.

Yes, Google currently does not support it. You never know, though! That might alter.

What do Cloudflare’s Crawler Hints do?

Crawler suggestions, a built-in feature of Cloudflare that was introduced in 2021, gives you a new way to inform search engines about your updated URLs.

In order to precisely time their crawling, avoid unnecessary crawls, and generally reduce resource consumption of customer origins, crawler infrastructure, and Cloudflare infrastructure, Crawler Hints provide search engine crawlers with high quality data on when content has changed on sites using Cloudflare.

Instead of pinging URLs incessantly and using up server resources, Cloudflare can watch for actual changes and only alert users when the material has to be re-indexed after a change.

IndexNow was made available by Cloudflare inside Crawler Hints shortly after debut.

What is IndexNow?

A new method of informing search engines about your material is IndexNow. In a manner similar to the old “WordPress” ping mechanism or even to uploading a sitemap, IndexNow pings your URLs to supported search engines to assist them in staying up to date.

In its most basic form, IndexNow is just a ping to let search engines know when a URL and its contents have been added, changed, or removed. This allows search engines to update their search results right away.

Nothing really sophisticated, but every little bit helps when it comes to pinging search engines with your new URLs.

How to enable IndexNow in Cloudflare?

1. Go to Caching > Configuration in the sidebar;

2. Enable tickbox under Crawler Hints section

Is it Worth Using IndexNow?

Well, Cloudflare is free and takes two minutes to activate. Thus, employing IndexNow is worthwhile.

Does IndexNow genuinely affect the situation?

We have yet to learn that, thus. However, even if only Bing and a few other search engines use it, it’s still worth adding because it’s free. You can’t be sure.

Google Does IndexNow Support?

The IndexNow protocols are not currently supported by Google. Google has expressed interest, so they might eventually back it.

So, with just two minutes of labor, you may possibly increase the indexation of your website in Tier 2 search engines.