Index now - send new products immediately from modified to Bing and Co.

Since search engines don't scan every URL every day, it can take days or weeks for search engines to notice that the content has changed. With Index now, it works in real time.

The moment you change or create a new product and save it, a command is sent to BING to index the product. At the very least, this puts you high on the priority list and gets you scanned faster than other websites.

Bing, in turn, mirrors the results to other search engines like Yandex. Index now is open source and therefore open to all interested search engine operators. Even Google has already signalled interest in Index now.

For Index now, you only need an API key, which is free of charge. You enter the API key in the configuration of the module under Modules > Class extensions > Categories. After that, you don't have to worry about anything, and your changes will appear in the ranking faster than those of your competitors.

You will see the success after approx. 24 hours at bing.com/webmasters, select your domain at the top left and then click on “IndexNow” in the middle left. Whenever you save products in the store, they often appear here immediately, at the latest after approx. 24 hours.

Also remember that ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot use Bing and not Google. So you are also feeding Microsoft's artificial intelligence - and if a potential customer asks about your product, the AI might mention you.


Version 2.0 - April 2025:

Now also possible for ERP users, because we have changed the trigger. The save button in the store no longer triggers the sending to Bing, but a cronjob that looks in the database for the timestamp “last changed” and sends all products to Bing that have been changed in the last 24 hours.

You can activate this automatism under Modules - Class Extensions - Categories in the configuration of the “Index Now” module. 
Then activate a WGET cronjob on your server for _cronjobs/fs_index_now.php

This means that all products changed in the last 24 hours will be sent to Bing, as well as manually saved products (which will be saved immediately as usual). If you do not have a Wawi, we advise you not to use the cronjob so as not to place an unnecessary load on the database.