FAQ
Does Google use IndexNow?
Section titled “Does Google use IndexNow?”No. Google does not take part in IndexNow. Use your sitemap and Google Search Console for Google. Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver and the other IndexNow engines share the URLs they receive.
Does IndexNow make my pages rank higher?
Section titled “Does IndexNow make my pages rank higher?”No. It tells the engines a URL changed, so they can crawl it sooner. Whether and when they crawl or index it is their decision.
Do I need an account or an API key?
Section titled “Do I need an account or an API key?”No. IndexNow is free and needs no account. The add-on creates the key and the key file itself.
Is the 304 answer safe for my customers?
Section titled “Is the 304 answer safe for my customers?”It is sent only to visitors without a sign-in, without items in the cart and without pending messages, and only when the visitor’s copy is not older than the page’s last change. Everyone else always gets the full page. Keep the setting off if your product pages show content that changes without a product, category, promotion or cache change, or lower the days limit.
Does it work with the full page cache of CS-Cart 4.21?
Section titled “Does it work with the full page cache of CS-Cart 4.21?”The add-on does not answer 304 itself while the core Full Page Cache add-on is active; it only adds the Last-Modified header. IndexNow sending runs in the admin panel and the cron job only. This combination was not tested on a live 4.21 store with Varnish.
Are the URLs of products changed by an import sent?
Section titled “Are the URLs of products changed by an import sent?”Imports that save products through the core functions queue them. Send them with Send now or the cron job.
What happens when I delete a product?
Section titled “What happens when I delete a product?”Its URL is queued before it is deleted, so the engines learn that it is gone.
Still stuck?
Section titled “Still stuck?”Work through the troubleshooting guide, then contact support with your CS-Cart version, edition, PHP version and the add-on version (1.0.0).