Live indexing for Bing & Google coming to Yoast SEO • Yoast

As we announced at YoastCon, we’re working together with Bing and Google to allow live indexing for everyone who uses Yoast SEO — free and premium. In the coming months, we’ll allow users to connect their sites to MyYoast, our customer portal. After that we’ll roll out live indexing, which means every time you publish, update, or delete a post, that will be reflected almost instantly into Bing and Google’s indices.

How does this work?

When you connect your site to MyYoast, you’ll authorize it to send messages back and forth. One of the types of messages that will be sent will be when you publish, update or delete anything on your site. We’ll pass that notification on to Bing, and Bing will check the changes within approximately one minute of you hitting the button.

You will not need to connect your site to Bing Webmaster Tools to do this. It’s all handled automatically. For Google, the details on this are not entirely determined yet, but a Google Search Console account will probably be required.

We do, of course, recommend making use of both Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console as they can give good insight into why your site is or is not performing well in the search engines.

If you’re reading this on Thursday (Feb 7, 2019), you might still catch one of Bing’s principal engineers, Arnold Overwijk, discuss this live at YoastCon through our live stream on Friday.

Discussion (41)

  1. Great job. You guys are really awesome. This is the one reason why I like this plugin.
  2. That’s fantastic news guys! Thanks that you will also make it free. I am looking forward to it. Keep up the great work!
  3. Will this also work for AMP sites since Google is caching those? At the moment we just finished our own plugin to tell Google about updates based on this article: Google AMP Cache Update
  4. Awesome! Will we still need to do a 301 if we delete a post?
  5. Pretty amazing stuff Joost. I still have old content indexed in Google even though the pages are long gone. With live indexing, alterations like structured data for rich snippets should be update sooner too, I would guess.
  6. Wow!!! That will be great. This is one of the best ideas since Search Engine Optimization started!
  7. That’s great news. A big cheers to Team Yoast. But I have a question. When I am editing a blog post or a page, there will be a frequent number of times I will be hitting the update button. Will it send an update to Google and Bing every time?
  8. I am editing my pages pretty often and prefer to send it manually to Google Index through the search console.
  9. Kinda late but really excited for this!
  10. That will be a great addition to MyYoast. Grats for the work, hope to see it live soon :)
  11. Great work. Nice to have that instant update.
  12. Very excited about that great work!
  13. This sounds like a brilliant step forward; you could only expect something like this from Yoast! Like many other site owners I assume, I get practically no traffic from Bing. If this does make a difference, it could be really good. Of course when you get Google on board as well, the sky is the limit. Nice work Yoast!
  14. Just wow. This is great.
  15. Does this apply to the free version of Yoast or will you need a subscription?
  16. Congratulations, this is amazing! Don’t know if this suggestion makes sense but to prevent too many update requests (e.g., when someone is re-editing one post after publishing it), what about a custom setting to allow users to define when search engines should be informed about the update (how many minutes later, so to speak)?
  17. Pretty amazing stuff Joost. I still have old content indexed in Google even though the pages are long gone. With live indexing, alterations like structured data for rich snippets should be updated sooner too, I would guess.
  18. Yay!! This is amazing news!
  19. Very nice move. It will help users in getting the site indexed without using Bing webmaster separately.
  20. Fantastic. I hope this will be available soon.