Microsoft updated Bing Webmaster Tools to build out the IndexNow reports, now named IndexNow Insights, add new Top SEO Insights to the main page and also cleaned up the side bar navigation within the tool. Plus, Fabrice Canel announced how IndexNow has grown to over 2.5 billion submitted URLs.
Fabrice Canel announced this at PubCon later yesterday afternoon during his keynote. In fact, he said IndexNow has grown to 2.5 billion submitted URLs, up from 1.2 billion only six months ago. He also said that 17% of all URLs clicked on within the Bing search web results are from IndexNow.
IndexNow also got an upgrade within Bing Webmaster Tools with a new IndexNow Insights report. The old report just showed the latest URLs through IndexNow. Now the report shows you actional insights with those submitted URLs including (according to Microsoft):
- Learn about issues with crawled URLs and the status of your submitted URLs.