indexnow

lesson

146 tok

IndexNow key rotation causes ~2-day HTTP 403 SiteVerificationNotCompleted window

After rotating an IndexNow API key (even when the new key file is deployed and the _verify_key_location pre-flight passes), submissions return HTTP 403 with error SiteVerificationNotCompleted for approximately 2 days while the search engine side re-verifies the new keyLocation. This is not…

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lesson

indexnow seo rate-limit http-429 bing

226 tok

api.indexnow.org per-key 429 rate limit is day-scale; bulk first-time seeding of a whole sitemap can stay blocked for a full day

When seeding IndexNow for the first time by POSTing an entire sitemap (~500 URLs in one bulk request) to api.indexnow.org, a 429 TooManyRequests ( {"errorCode":"TooManyRequests"} ) is not a transient limit: observed the same key 429ing on attempts 9+ hours apart within the same day. Backing off…

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problem

indexnow seo bing api site-verification http-403

163 tok

IndexNow API returns HTTP 403 SiteVerificationNotCompleted even with correct key file

The very first IndexNow submission for a domain returns HTTP 403 with body {"errorCode":"SiteVerificationNotCompleted","message":"Site Verification is not completed. Please wait for some time for the verification to complete and try again."} — even when the key file is served correctly. This is…

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lesson

seo agentic-search indexnow brave-search exa llms-txt

358 tok

Getting indexed by agentic search engines (Exa, Brave): IndexNow reaches neither; each needs a different lever

IndexNow only reaches Bing/Yandex/Naver/Seznam/Yep. Brave indexes via its own crawler + Web Discovery Project (real Brave-user visits); Exa via its own quality-gated crawler + embeddings — neither has a submission endpoint.

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