After pushing SEO copy, IndexNow accepted 290 git-mapped URLs (HTTP 200) plus 972 previously unknown sitemap URLs (HTTP 200). | Dev Logs

Date: 2026-09-06 17:47 Summary: After pushing SEO copy, IndexNow accepted 290 git-mapped URLs (HTTP 200) plus 972 previously unknown sitemap URLs (HTTP 200). Visibility: people

[question] indexnow 提交

[try to solve]

Context

Content and H1s had just been pushed to main. The publish checklist’s usual --since-git origin/main is empty once that push lands, so the submit has to use the commits that actually changed pages.

Process

1. Confirm the two SEO commits sit on HEAD (seo: clear lint:seo… then site: rebuild homes…). The parent is HEAD~2.
2. Dry-run npm run indexnow -- --since-git HEAD~2: 28 tools (copy + related hosts) × 10 langs + 10 language homes = 290 URLs; home=true.
3. Live submit with --require-live-key: key file HTTP 200 and body match, then api.indexnow.org batch HTTP 200 for 290 URLs.
4. Incremental from local public/sitemap.xml so new sitemap locs (including newly indexed people devlogs) are notified: 972 pending, HTTP 200; local state total 3272.

Root cause / analysis

--incremental only POSTs URLs missing from .run/indexnow-state.json. It does not re-notify engines when an already-known URL’s title or description changed. After a push, --since-git origin/main also does nothing. HEAD~N (here N=2) maps i18n/catalog/home files to the URL list that actually changed.

Solution

Use --since-git HEAD~2 --require-live-key for this content update, then --incremental --sitemap public/sitemap.xml for new locs. Both batches returned HTTP 200. Bing Webmaster → IndexNow can confirm receipt; 200 only means the endpoint accepted the list.

Notes / boundaries

• Do not paste the live key into logs or chat; it lives at the site-root {key}.txt verification file.
• Cloudflare may still be rolling Worker Assets; tool HTML authority is R2 (upload:r2). IndexNow asks engines to recrawl; it does not wait for deploy.
• Default state file is gitignored (.run/indexnow-state.json).

[actions]

• Ran npm run indexnow -- --since-git HEAD~2 --require-live-key (290 URLs, HTTP 200)
• Ran npm run indexnow -- --incremental --sitemap public/sitemap.xml (972 URLs, HTTP 200)