Requested entity was not found.

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the "Requested entity was not found" error. This can occur for several reasons, including issues with your website’s indexing status or potential problems with the connection to Google Search Console.

Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue:

1. Verify Your Site URL: Ensure that the correct site URL is added to Google Search Console. You can refer to our guide on adding a URL property to the Search Console.

2. Check Sitemap Submission: Make sure that your sitemap is correctly submitted in Google Search Console. Navigate to Indexing → Sitemaps and paste the correct sitemap URL in the Add a new sitemap field and click SUBMIT. Ensure there are no spaces in the sitemap URL, as this can lead to errors.
   

3. Wait for Google to Index: If your website is new or if you’ve recently made changes, it may take some time for Google to index your pages. You can use Rank Math’s Instant Indexing feature if you are a PRO user to submit your URLs directly.

4. Check for Content Duplication: If there are duplicate content issues, it may prevent indexing. Ensure that you have canonical URLs set up correctly for any duplicate pages.
   

5. Inspect for Crawl Issues: Check if your website is blocked by Google or if there are crawl budget issues affecting your site. You can do this by searching for your website on Google and seeing if it appears in the results.

If you have tried all these steps and are still encountering issues, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern, and we’re here to help!

Hello,

Assuming you have submitted the URL, that means that the URL was still not processed by the Indexing API from Google. It’s important to note that the requirements for that have changed and now the URLs go through rigorous spam detection.

Besides that, the guidelines now state that this is exclusive to a particular set of websites, so if your website doesn’t fall under that category or is considered spammy the submission will go through but the API will never parse the URLs.

You can check the full guidelines here: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart

In this case, you should check your Google Search Console > Indexing > Pages section to determine any issues reported on your URLs that may have prevented your site from being indexed:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en

To better understand the status reported, you may refer to our guide here:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-inspection-api-integration/#not-indexed

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

That is nothing wrong with the plugin but Google is now enforcing the directives in the Indexing API so any website that doesn’t fall under the accepted category or is considered spammy will simply be ignored and when that happens you cannot fetch the status of any page because those are not in the API.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.