The active push protocol is only supported by a few search engines, does another one count as a push?
The active push protocol is only supported by a few search engines. Does the one that doesn't participate count as being pushed? No. The role of active push is to inform which websites have been added or changed, request priority crawling. Engines that do not participate in the push will not receive this notification, and can only rely on sitemaps and regular crawling to discover addresses, and the inclusion judgment will not change accordingly. We should separate the discovery and inclusion, according to the分流 actions of the engine, push is responsible for the increment, and the sitemap is responsible for the bottom line.
Discovering and indexing are not the same thing
The solution to discovery is whether the engine knows if the address exists; the solution to inclusion is whether it is willing to put the address into the index and give it a ranking. Active push belongs to the discovery phase, which makes the engine prioritize crawling, but it does not mean that the content is definitely included in the index, nor does it mean that the inclusion quality will improve.Engines that do not participate in the agreement take a different discovery path: periodic submission of sitemap files, plus regular crawling guided by link relationships. The difference between the two paths lies in timeliness, not treatment: the participating parties receive change signals earlier, and the non-participating parties rely on periodic coverage.It is a common misreading to treat items not pushed as not included, with two stages of retrieval and quality judgment in between.
Participants on the day's scale
The IndexNow official site states the scope for the day, the participating parties of this agreement are Microsoft Bing, Naver, Seznam.cz, Yandex, Yep;Through it, search engines can learn which websites have changed and thus prioritize crawling. The mainstream engine not on the list is not involved in the parties, notifying it is like sending a message to an object that does not listen to this channel.The scope of judgment should fall on the day of retrieval: the list of participants will expand or contract with cooperation, and it needs to be reviewed again after a while, do not continue to use the old list to arrange the actions for the whole quarter.The list only specifies who will receive the notification, it does not involve each family's quota and inclusion standards, those two things need to be checked with each family's explanation.
The process of分流 by engine
The core of分流 is to assign different change types to different channels, the following table lists the channels and verification methods of each party.
| Change type | Engines participating in the agreement | Engines not participating | Verification method |
|---|---|---|---|
| New content online | Push new address actively | sitemaps submitted periodically | index results checked item by item |
| minor content modification | active update push | sitemaps update time field | crawling record comparison |
| address change | set 301 redirect first then push new address | replace sitemaps with new address | redirect link and status check |
| Page Offline | Moved out of site map after push | Site map removed | Observation period for results retention |
Add new content through active push, assign existing content and modifications to site map coverage, first establish a 301 redirect relationship from the old address to the new address, then push the new address out, so that the participating parties can switch to the new link as soon as possible. Submit batch changes by type separately, handle one case at a time, and it is easy to locate the link when an error occurs. The link push on the AnQiCMS side and the automatic generation of Sitemap correspond to these two channels, the static rules and 301 redirect configuration maintain the address consistency, to avoid the pushed address from being different from the actual accessible address.
How to verify after pushing
Check the two results: whether the notification has been received and whether the index has really changed. The first part looks at the processing results returned by the engine, with separate counts for successful submissions and failures;In the days after submission, use each site to query and confirm one by one whether the address has entered the index. Handle three cases separately: not crawled, supplement the site map and check if robots have blocked the path;Caught without collection, it belongs to content and quality judgment issues, which are not solved at the notification stage; for those who have changed the address, confirm that the 301 redirect has taken effect and the old address no longer appears in the site map.Document the verification results, mark the search date and submission batch, for easy comparison of share changes in the next round.
Common questions
Ask: Is an engine that does not participate in the active push protocol considered to be pushed?
Answer: No. Notifications sent out are not received by it, and the discovery of this type depends on the site map and regular crawling, with the inclusion judgment following its own chain of command.
Ask: Should the site map continue to be submitted?
Answer: Yes. The site map is a fallback channel, covering existing inventory and modifications, while active push only handles increments. Both need to be maintained simultaneously to avoid missing addresses.
Ask: What should be pushed when changing addresses?
Answer: First, configure the 301 redirect from the old address to the new address, and then push the new address; the old address should be removed from the site map, and the redirect relationship should be retained until the reference is cleared.
Ask: If the push was not indexed, is it because the link is broken?
Answer: It may not be a link problem. First, confirm whether it has been crawled, then judge the quality, and only when the notification and crawling are normal and the index does not move, do you need to check whether the configuration has an intercept.