Search engines usually only come by every few weeks or days.
Until then, changes in the shop - or new products - go unnoticed.
Due to the slow indexing of search engines, important changes go unnoticed and you miss valuable visitors.
With Index now, you will be visited much faster than your competitors.
With Index now you tell search engines directly what you have changed. You climb to the top of the priority list and your changes are indexed quickly.
What is Index Now?
Index now is open source and therefore open to all interested search engine operators. Bing and Yandex are already participating, and Google has also signalled interest in Index now. Bing is a search engine service of the US company Microsoft, which has been available since 28 May 2009. Yandex is a Russian search engine of the operator of the same name.
With Index now, you are not only visited faster, but also searched for new content by the most important search engines. Your content is therefore captured and indexed more quickly by the engines, which is important for your SEO.
(A short excursion into basic knowledge: SEO is the abbreviation for Search Engine Optimization. The aim is to design and market content in such a way that it can be found by as many people as possible. However, many entrepreneurs neglect their SEO or use it incorrectly. This is a pity, because with the right measures you can bring your website to the front and generate more traffic - traffic means stream of visitors).
With this plugin, you can send your changed content directly from Shopware to Index now.
A plugin like Index now can help to send your content from Shopware directly to the search engines and thus be found faster. This not only increases the chance that customers will come across your website, but also that they will be interested in your offer and ultimately buy it.
For Index now you only need an API key, which is free of charge. After that, you don't have to worry about anything, and your changes will appear in the rankings faster than those of your competitors.
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.
Q: Where can I find the configuration?
A: The configuration for the API key can be found under Settings - Extensions - Bing Index Now.
A: The configuration for the ERP checkbox can be found under Extensions - Bing Index Now - Configuration.
Q: Nothing happens for me!
A: You need these two cronjobs:
bin/console scheduled-task:run --time-limit=86400 --memory-limit=128M
and for Shopware 6.4 or older
bin/console messenger:consume default --time-limit=86400 --memory-limit=128M
or for Shopware 6.5 and newer:
bin/console messenger:consume async --time-limit=86400 --memory-limit=128M
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