About this plugin
SoftReviewed Multi-Engine Indexing notifies Google, Bing, and Yandex the instant you publish, update, or delete a post or page on your WordPress website.
Instead of waiting days or weeks for search engine bots to crawl your XML sitemap, SoftReviewed Multi-Engine Indexing pushes real-time notifications directly to search engine crawlers via their official APIs within seconds.
For complete documentation, Google Cloud setup instructions, and step-by-step guides, visit the SoftReviewed Documentation.
Key Capabilities
- Ultra-Lightweight: Clean, single-file modular architecture built with native PHP (< 750 lines).
- Zero External Dependencies: Native OpenSSL token signing for Google’s Indexing API – no bulky Google SDK or third-party composer dependencies.
- Bing & Yandex (IndexNow): Native IndexNow integration automatically generates and hosts your verification key file ( /<key>.txt ) and notifies api.indexnow.org.
- Google Indexing API: Full support for Google Service Accounts ( URL_UPDATED and URL_DELETED events).
- Non-Blocking Queue: Submissions are queued via WordPress Cron to ensure your post editor never slows down or waits on external network requests.
- Manual Bulk Submitter: Quickly paste and submit up to 50 URLs at once for rapid re-indexing.
- Live Audit Log: Real-time log displaying exact HTTP response codes and verification statuses for every submission.
External services
This plugin connects to third-party search engine APIs to provide automated URL indexing services:
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- What it does: Submits real-time crawl requests to Google when posts or pages are published, updated, or removed.
- Data sent: The public URL of the published or modified post, the action type (URL_UPDATED or URL_DELETED), and a cryptographic OAuth 2.0 assertion token signed with your private Google Service Account key.
- When it is sent: Automatically upon publishing, updating, or trashing content, or manually when using the bulk submission tool.
- Terms & Privacy:
- Google APIs Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/terms
- Google Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
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IndexNow API (Microsoft Bing & Yandex):
- What it does: Instantly notifies Bing, Yandex, and other participating search engines of new or modified URLs.
- Data sent: The site host domain, the public URL of the modified content, the auto-generated site verification key, and the key file location URL.
- When it is sent: Automatically upon publishing, updating, or trashing content, or manually when using the bulk submission tool.
- Terms & Privacy:
- IndexNow Protocol Information: https://www.indexnow.org/
- Microsoft Privacy Statement: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement
- Yandex Privacy Policy: https://yandex.com/legal/privacy/