Pingmap watches your sitemap and automatically submits new and updated URLs to IndexNow. Search engines that support IndexNow (Bing, Yandex, Naver, and others) receive the notification and crawl your pages on demand instead of waiting for their next scheduled visit.
What you need
- A live website with a publicly accessible sitemap (usually at
/sitemap.xmlor/sitemap_index.xml) - A Pingmap account — sign up here, free to start
Pingmap generates and hosts your IndexNow key file. You don't need to set one up manually.
Add your site
After signing in, click Add site. You'll be asked for:
- Domain — your site's root domain, e.g.
example.com - Sitemap URL — the full URL to your sitemap, e.g.
https://example.com/sitemap.xml
If you're not sure where your sitemap is, try /sitemap.xml first. WordPress, Next.js, Webflow, Ghost, and most other platforms put it there by default.
Verify ownership
Pingmap generates a key and asks you to place a small text file at the root of your domain:
https://yourdomain.com/{your-key}.txt
The file should contain just your key, on a single line. Once it's live, click Verify. Pingmap fetches the file to confirm you control the domain.
If you're on a platform where you can't upload arbitrary files (some hosted builders), see the IndexNow key setup page for alternatives.
First poll
As soon as verification succeeds, Pingmap fetches your sitemap and submits all discovered URLs to IndexNow. This is the baseline snapshot.
From there, Pingmap polls on the interval you set, diffs against the previous snapshot, and submits only what's new or changed. You can watch every poll in the dashboard.