Submission & IndexNow

IndexNow (preferred)Copy Anchor Link

IndexNow tells Bing and the other participating search engines about new, changed, or deleted URLs. It needs no Bing login and spends no Bing quota; you prove ownership by hosting a key file.

bwt indexnow key generate     # creates a key for your site's host and saves it
# upload KEY.txt, containing only the key, to https://www.example.com/KEY.txt
bwt indexnow key check        # fetches the key file and confirms it matches

key generate and key check follow your site's redirect between example.com and www.example.com, so the key lands on the host that serves your pages. Pass --host to choose one.

bwt indexnow submit https://www.example.com/new-post
bwt indexnow submit --file changed.txt
bwt indexnow submit --sitemap https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml --changed-since 2026-10-01

URLs are grouped by host and sent up to 10,000 per request. --endpoint picks indexnow (api.indexnow.org, the default), bing, or any HTTPS endpoint; one submission reaches every participating engine. 200 and 202 mean received (202: key validation pending), not indexed.

URL submissionCopy Anchor Link

bwt quota                                                  # remaining daily and monthly quota
bwt submit urls https://www.example.com/new-page --dry-run
bwt submit urls https://www.example.com/new-page
bwt submit urls --file urls.txt --check-quota              # batches of up to 500

On a failure, submit urls reports the batches Bing accepted and stops. It never resubmits, because every submission spends quota, even for the same URL.

Content submissionCopy Anchor Link

Push a page's full HTTP response so Bing can index it without crawling:

curl -s --http1.1 -i https://www.example.com/ -o home.http
bwt submit content https://www.example.com/ --file home.http

The file holds the status line, headers, a blank line, and the body, up to 10 MB. Add --structured-data for a JSON-LD file and --dynamic-serving for device-specific pages. It works with an API key and spends the separate content quota. Submitted content can be indexed even when robots.txt disallows the URL; NOINDEX is honored.

SitemapsCopy Anchor Link

bwt sitemaps list
bwt sitemaps submit https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
bwt sitemaps get https://www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml     # sitemaps inside an index
bwt sitemaps remove https://www.example.com/old-sitemap.xml

XML sitemaps, sitemap indexes, RSS 2.0, Atom 0.3 and 1.0, and text feeds are supported.