Best crawling plugins for WordPress
The most popular crawling plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Instant Indexing for Google leads with 200K+ active installs, ahead of IndexNow Plugin (100K+) and Bing URL Submissions Plugin (40K+). All 8 plugins tagged “crawling” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 8 crawling plugins
- 1.
Instant Indexing for GoogleThe most installed crawling plugin, with 200K+ active installs. Rated 3.6 from 36 reviews, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
- 2.
IndexNow Plugin100K+ active installs. Rated 3.2 from 47 reviews, updated 4 months ago.
- 3.
Bing URL Submissions Plugin40K+ active installs. Rated 3.3 from 21 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 4.
Crawler Record100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 month ago.
- 5.
Simple Search Submission for IndexNow90+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
- 6.
IndexNowForSeznamCZ Plugin70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.9.20.
- 7.
GNA Crawling Errors10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 8.
Aabir Indexing ApiFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 11 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 8 plugins tagged “crawling”
Instant Indexing for Google
Down in the last 7 days:3#278by Rank Math SEO11 months ago
A very efficient yet simple plugin to take care of your indexing woos and helps get your content crawled by search bots instantly.
- Installs
- 200K+
- Rating
- 3.6(36)
- Downloads
- 349/day
IndexNow Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:4#321by bingwebmastertools4 months ago
IndexNow Plugin for WordPress enables site owners to instantly and automatically submit their new/updated pages to supporting search engines.
- Installs
- 100K+
- Rating
- 3.2(47)
- Downloads
- 967/day
Bing URL Submissions Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:2#876by bingwebmastertools5 months ago
Bing URL Submission Plugin for WordPress enables site owners to instantly and automatically submit their new/updated pages to the Bing index.
- Installs
- 40K+
- Rating
- 3.3(21)
- Downloads
- 89/day
Crawler Record
Up in the last 7 days:104#16,082by dizzysoft1 month ago
Crawler Record tells you the last time each of the most common search/LLM chatbots visited (Google, ChatGPT, etc) and the pages at which they looked.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Simple Search Submission for IndexNow
Down in the last 7 days:36#17,315by Peter Wilson2 months ago
A simplified plugin for submitting crawl requests to search engines supporting IndexNow.
- Installs
- 90+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
IndexNowForSeznamCZ Plugin
Down in the last 7 days:18#19,007by Jaroslav Hlavinka4 years ago
IndexNowForSeznamCZ Plugin pro WordPress umožňuje majitelům webů instantně a automaticky posílat nové/upravené/smazané URL do vyhledávače Seznam.cz
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 6/day
GNA Crawling Errors
#36,235by Chris Mok10 years ago
Easy to check crawling errors of website and export the information to CSV type file
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Aabir Indexing Api
Up in the last 7 days:6,398#60,164by aabirwave11 months ago
Aabir indexing api helps get your website content crawled by search bots instantly. Job posting or livestreaming video pages are indexed by indexing a …
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day