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Yoast Founder Says IndexNow Does Not Lead To More Traffic Or Improved Crawl Efficiency

Some of you may be wondering why Yoast or WordPress have not integrated the Microsoft backed IndexNow protocol. Well, Joost de Valk, the founded of Yoast said he has seen zero evidence that IndexNow helps sites gain more traffic or reduces crawling or improves crawl efficiency.
Here is what Joost de Valk said on Twitter “As far as I’m aware, we’ve still not seen evidence that it (1) actually helps sites/site owners get more traffic and (2) reduces crawling / improves crawl efficiency (and thus reduces energy consumption). Joost went on to said “as far as I can tell, it does the opposite of 2, in fact.”
So you are saying IndexNow is less efficient than typical crawling?
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) March 1, 2022
He then went on to explain he wants proof because he does not see any evidence of this:
Well, it’s not up to us to explain this. I’m waiting for Bing to actually show *improved* crawling and have so far been unable to get that proof. I think including it in Yoast SEO without that proof would be bloat…
— Joost de Valk (@jdevalk) March 1, 2022
So Fabrice Canel from Microsoft said on Twitter “let’s remind all SEOs that the primary value of IndexNow is to quickly reflect latest content changes in search engines. Be indexed first, fast is SEO critical these days. IndexNow provides on most sites a clear signal and we are committed to leverage it to crawl more efficiently.”
Let’s remind all SEOs that the primary value of IndexNow is to quickly reflect latest content changes in search engines. Be indexed first, fast is SEO critical these days. IndexNow provides on most sites a clear signal and we are committed to leverage it to crawl more efficiently
— Fabrice Canel (@facan) March 1, 2022
As a reminder, Duda, All In On SEO and Rank Math SEO recently added support for IndexNow, Cloudflare added support a while back, Microsoft built their own WordPress plugin and Google promised to test it.
If Yoast and WordPress add it by default, that would be huge. But I am not sure that would happen without Google adopting it.
I do find the efficiency questions interesting because that was one of the major pushes for adoption of IndexNow.
Don’t get me wrong, I do have IndexNow enabled for this site…
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Aurora Morales Recording Again in A Real Google Studio

Aurora Morales of Google has done a nice number of videos for Google, specifically on the publisher monetization front. She did a nice number of those while at home since COVID. She now said she is back for the first time in a real Google studio recording.
She wrote on Twitter “Filming at an actual studio again (and not remotely from my apartment) has felt truly amazing. More policy video content coming.”
This is good to see – I was in one of these studios and they are the real deal.
This post is part of our daily Search Photo of the Day column, where we find fun and interesting photos related to the search industry and share them with our readers.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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