Despite Yoast’s founder, Joost de Valk, being super unimpressed with IndexNow, the Microsoft backed indexing initiative, Yoast will be adding support soon for IndexNow in Yoast SEO Premium.
Joost de Valk first announced this on his personal blog saying “We’ll be adding support for it to Yoast SEO Premium soon and we look forward to seeing the impact it makes, if any.” I do look forward to seeing what Joost has to report on that impact…
Joost wrote:
Fabrice Canel said on Twitter “Thanks @jdevalk for adding IndexNow support to Yoast SEO Premium soon!” He added “IndexNow is indeed getting adopted. We will communicate soon some amazing numbers for this protocol established only few months ago.”
Yes, I am a bit surprised Yoast is adding support for IndexNow but I am happy about it – like he said, it is super simple and why not?
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.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
