The problem was annoying enough that I finally did something about it.
Every time I published a post or updated a page, I'd open Bing Webmaster Tools and manually submit the URL. Miss a day, get busy, or just forget, and the page would sit un-indexed for days. Sometimes longer. Bing's crawler would eventually find it, but "eventually" is not useful when you're trying to see if something gets any traction.
I knew IndexNow existed. The idea is simple: instead of waiting for crawlers to show up, you push a notification when something changes and the engines come to you. But every implementation I found was either a WordPress plugin (I'm not on WordPress), a manual API call (back to doing it by hand), or someone's half-finished side project on GitHub.
What I wanted was something that just ran. No manual steps, no remembering, no babysitting.
The insight
I already keep my sitemap up to date. Every page I publish shows up there. So instead of tracking changes manually, I could poll the sitemap on a schedule, compare it against the last snapshot, and submit whatever's new. The sitemap is the source of truth for what's on the site. I just needed something to watch it.
That's the whole idea behind Pingmap. You point it at your sitemap URL and it handles the rest: polling on a schedule, diffing against the previous snapshot, submitting new URLs to IndexNow, and logging what happened. The first time I set it up on my own site, I published a post and saw it appear in Bing the same day.
Who it's for
If you're on WordPress with RankMath or Yoast, you probably already have an IndexNow integration and don't need this.
If you're on anything else — Webflow, Framer, Ghost, a custom-built site, Next.js — and you're still waiting for crawlers or submitting URLs by hand, Pingmap is what I built for that exact situation.
It's free to start. Add your first site here.