New Module: Index Now
Index Now automatically submits store URLs to the indexing service that Bing uses.
Store owners know that the faster new products are indexed by search engines the better. This module submits your URLs to IndexNow.org which means that search engines crawl your links significantly faster than normal.
by Scot Ranney
We released Index Now in Feb of 2026 after months of testing on Scot's Scripts and other sites. Now it's ready for prime time.
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What does Index Now do?
Index Now does one thing: It automatically submits the URLs from your store to https://www.indexnow.org/ indexing service.
Bing, Yandex, and other search engines use this indexing service to help them decide what links to crawl. What makes Index Now useful is that these search engines will crawl your links much quicker than they would otherwise. This also means search engines such as Duck Duck Go (and others) which use Bing to help get results will index your new products faster as well.
Installing the module is a breeze, there is barely anything to do except enter your license and activate it.
One of the extra features the module provides is a way to submit your existing URLs. Chances are your existing URLs are already indexed, but it doesn't hurt anything to submit them anyway.
What else does it do?
Boy am I glad you asked. There is a utility to submit all of your existing Miva Merchant store URLs. Products, categories, and pages. It also handles things like updating and deleting URLs. On a technical level it leverages the URI notification system so it knows when URIs are added, updated, and deleted and sends the info the the IndexNow.org index service.
Why did we make this module?
Easy answer. I was banging his head against a wall trying to figure out why Bing wouldn't index Scot's Scripts (and therefore, Duck Duck Go also wouldn't index the site.) Everything was correct on the site and the site is fully indexed by Google and other search engines. One day when I was deep into trying to figure this out I ran across IndexNow.org and decided to try the index service.
You know what happened? The next time I checked Bing and Duck Duck Go Scot's Scripts was there. I attribute this fully to the Index Now module because I'd been trying for probably close to a year to resolve the Bing issue without success.
Why Should You Use Index Now?
We can all use more ways to get our product and other store links out there. Simple as that. Used along side sitemaps and analytics and other SEO and SEO related services it just gets your stuff out there from another angle.
Does the blog module work with Index Now?
It's on the roadmap. I'd say Scot's Blogger will have support for using the Index Now module when v3.6 is released sometime in the next few months.
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