Full page health check
Review indexability, title and description, canonical tags, headings, image ALT text, schema, internal links and more.
Submit changed URLs through the official IndexNow endpoint, troubleshoot crawlability, inspect metadata and understand how both classic search and AI-assisted discovery systems can find your content.
ExciteSubmit sends your request to the official IndexNow endpoint. Participating search engines currently include the services below, which can receive or share valid IndexNow notifications across the network.
AI search visibility checks remain available below for ChatGPT Search, Gemini controls and Perplexity — but those are crawler visibility checks, not direct IndexNow-style submission APIs.
IndexNow is a change-notification protocol. Instead of waiting for a participating search engine to discover every change during a future crawl, a site owner can send the URL of a new, updated or removed page as a notification. The search engine still decides whether and when to crawl the URL, and whether the page belongs in its index.
This distinction matters. A successful submission is best understood as “the change notification was accepted”, not “the page is indexed.” ExciteSubmit shows the response from the official IndexNow endpoint so you can verify that the notification request itself was accepted.
IndexNow is most useful when a website changes frequently: product availability, new articles, revised documentation, updated landing pages, or removed URLs. It can complement normal discovery through internal links and XML sitemaps rather than replace them.
For durable search visibility, your pages still need to be accessible, useful, technically indexable and linked in a way that crawlers can understand. That is why ExciteSubmit pairs URL submission with crawl, sitemap, metadata and indexability diagnostics.
Use focused checks for crawl access, redirects, page metadata, XML sitemaps and AI-search discovery.
Review indexability, title and description, canonical tags, headings, image ALT text, schema, internal links and more.
Check a sitemap response and inspect the URLs it exposes to search crawlers.
See the HTTP status, final destination after redirects, response time, content type and important crawl headers.
Fetch robots.txt, verify its status and discover declared XML sitemap locations.
Check title, description, canonical, robots directives and Open Graph fields from a live page.
Check robots.txt access for ChatGPT Search, Google Gemini controls and Perplexity. This is a crawler visibility check, not a direct AI submission API.
Make sure the page returns a normal success response, is not blocked by authentication, and does not accidentally carry a noindex directive.
Internal links give crawlers context and a repeatable discovery path. Important pages should not exist only as orphan URLs known to a submission tool.
An XML sitemap gives search systems a structured list of URLs you want them to know about. Keep sitemap URLs canonical and current.
Use IndexNow for new, changed or removed URLs. Then verify the technical page signals instead of repeatedly resubmitting the same unchanged URL.
Search engines use more than a submission signal. A URL can be accepted by IndexNow and still be difficult to crawl or unsuitable for indexing. Common causes include server errors, redirect loops, robots rules, a page-level noindex, conflicting canonicals, duplicate content, weak internal linking, or a page that provides little unique value.
A useful troubleshooting order is: verify the HTTP response, verify the final URL after redirects, check robots.txt and page robots directives, confirm the canonical points where you expect, then inspect page content and internal links.
Modern AI-assisted search products may use dedicated crawlers, conventional search indexes, partner indexes or a combination of retrieval systems. There is no universal “submit this URL to every AI search engine” protocol. For that reason, ExciteSubmit does not pretend that its AI visibility checker submits pages directly to ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity.
Instead, the AI Search Visibility tool checks the public crawler controls that site owners can actually manage. That makes it useful for spotting an accidental robots.txt block while keeping the result honest about what the test can and cannot prove.
No. IndexNow notifies participating search engines that a URL changed. Crawling and indexing decisions remain with each search engine.
ExciteSubmit submits to the official IndexNow endpoint. The current participants listed on the site are Bing, Yandex, Seznam, Naver, Yep, Internet Archive and Amazonbot.
Usually no. The protocol is designed for URLs that are new, updated or removed. Normal internal links and XML sitemaps remain important discovery mechanisms.
The key proves control of the submitted host. ExciteSubmit can generate the key file for you, but you must place that file on the website you are submitting so the IndexNow service can verify it.
ExciteSubmit only labels a function as a direct submission when a suitable public submission mechanism exists. The AI tool checks crawler visibility rather than claiming a direct AI-search submission.
Start with the HTTP response, robots directives, canonical URL, sitemap inclusion, internal links and the uniqueness/usefulness of the content. A successful notification alone cannot override technical or quality issues.