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        <title>blogging — LowEndSpirit DEV</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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        <title>Make Your Hosting Site &amp; Blog instantly indexed with IndexNow across Multiple Search Engines</title>
        <link>https://dev.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/discussion/3452/make-your-hosting-site-blog-instantly-indexed-with-indexnow-across-multiple-search-engines</link>
        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2021 04:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>General</category>
        <dc:creator>nickelodeon</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>Microsoft, Yandex and few others recently opened a new initiative to crawl and index web faster than ever. <strong>IndexNow</strong> service will help you instantly index your web hosting site, blog, forum pages across all associated search engines that are the part of IndexNow. <em>Gone are the days to send URL to each specific search engine</em> - that's the USP of IndexNow service.</p>

<p><strong>What is IndexNow?</strong><br /><em>In its simplest form, IndexNow is a simple ping so that search engines know that a URL and its content has been added, updated, or deleted, allowing search engines to quickly reflect this change in their search results</em></p>

<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.indexnow.org/documentation" title="www.indexnow.org">www.indexnow.org</a></p>

<p>For 1st Nov, 2021, anybody can use just single search engine and send recently published web pages/ blog pages, and that search engine will ping the other one in background to index your web page across all search engines who are participating in IndexNow.</p>

<p><strong>How to use:</strong><br />
1. Go to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bing.com/indexnow" title="Bing's IndexNow">Bing's IndexNow</a> page. (no sign-in required)<br />
2. Generate the API key<br />
3. Make a txt file on your root domain and put that API key.<br />
4. Now start manually/JSON ping Bing with following URL</p>

<p><code spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">https://www.bing.com/indexnow?url=https://www.hostingcompany.com/&amp;key=your-key</code></p>

<ol start="5"><li>If it returns "200 OK" response It will crawled and get indexed in Bing and ALL participating search engines.</li>
</ol><p>Everything <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.bing.com/indexnow" title="in detail here">in detail here</a> (Bing IndexNow)</p>

<p>Currently, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu are part of this open initiative. <br />
Github, Cloudflare are supporting it. <a rel="nofollow" href="https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-now-supports-indexnow/" title="Cloudflare launched CrawlerHints">Cloudflare launched Free CrawlerHints</a> which support IndexNow in the background.</p>

<p>Currently I tested my automotive forum links via JSON post-method and added/pinged 150 posts. I could see bing crawling and indexing about 87 new pages/changed pages in 8-9 hours. I'm also using Bing API (from their webmaster tools account) which also helps Bing crawling it faster but not indexing it quicker. It takes 24 to 48 hours for new pages to appear. So this new IndexNow services seems bit fast than Bing's own API.</p>

<p>Let's see if Yandex tries to automatically crawl and index all those 150 URLs sent to IndexNow via Bing after 1st Nov. But right now this services seems useful especially for forum sites like this LES.</p>

<p>Cons: Google is not yet part of this.</p>

<p>Searchengineland has an <a rel="nofollow" href="https://searchengineland.com/indexnow-new-initiative-by-microsoft-and-yandex-to-push-content-to-search-engines-375247" title="article">article</a> about it!</p>

<p>try it.</p>

<p><img src="https://the-online.com/smileyface.png" alt="" title="" /></p>
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        <title>Google lost blogspot.in domain..and chaos ensues</title>
        <link>https://dev.lowendspirit.com/index.php?p=/discussion/1434/google-lost-blogspot-in-domain-and-chaos-ensues</link>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
        <category>Industry News</category>
        <dc:creator>vyas</dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[<h3 data-id="google-loses-ownership-over-blogspot-in-users-face-issues-accessing-their-blogs">Google loses ownership over blogspot.in, users face issues accessing their blogs</h3>

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  <p>Google’s blogspot.in is currently inaccessible to many users in India. People who post on the platform are facing issues getting access to their blogs. Many web pages within the Indian domain are inaccessible at the moment. This is because Google has lost control over the URLs blogspot.in.</p>
  
  <p>However, blogs are visible when users change the URLs to blogspot.com, but the major issue is that over a million users who have put links with blogspot.in domain on various websites are now broken links.</p>
  
  <p>Blogspot has now been acquired by Domainming.</p>
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<p><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/google-loses-ownership-over-blogspot-in-users-face-issues-accessing-their-blogs-1698430-2020-07-08" title="Link to original article">Link to original article</a> (Note: multiple ads, read in preview mode)<br />
WhoIs confirms it. Looks like domainming are going to get a lot of free PR and traffic!</p>

<p>As many of you may be aware, this is<br /><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.cnet.com/news/what-did-google-pay-the-guy-who-briefly-owned-google-com/" title="Not for the first time">not for the first time</a> that google has lost a domain! Maybe they should set up google calendar alerts for renewal. <br />
 And btw- confirming the above. Blogspot.in shows me this:</p>

<p><img src="https://img.gaatha.co/Ie6JNQ+" width="400" alt="image" /></p>
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