Hey gang. For Indexnow, they want me to publish a .txt file with a specific value on my site. For example. https://domain.com/sjkhdjh333.txt Is this possible with Discourse? I see it can be done for Google Adsense with ads.txt, but I don’t see an easy way to do this.

Here’s how [image] How to Place a TXT File in My Discourse Root Directory for WeChat Mini Program Verification? Support Right! I think that’s exactly what I told someone to do some years ago. I periodically seem to forget that /raw/ path somehow. So you just…

This will be accomplished via Ahrefs, who give you the option to submit once it has crawed your site! [Screenshot 2025-11-29 at 5.20.40 PM]

Oh, that’s neat. I wasn’t aware. Were you able to upload the txt and make it work?

Yes, I did manage to get it to work by entering the container, and creating the txt file at the root of the site.

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tpetrov (Toni Petrov) November 29, 2025, 4:32pm 4

Uploading the .txt file is easy, but you’ll also need to come up with a way to push/submit new topics to the indexnow api in step 3: How to add IndexNow to your website | Bing Webmaster Tools

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