Hello,
We apologize for the issue you are facing with the Instant Indexing feature. The "Error 404, Requested entity was not found" message typically indicates that the URL you are trying to submit does not exist or is not accessible. Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot this issue:
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Check the URL: Ensure that the URL you are submitting is correct and that the page is indeed published and accessible on your website.
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Verify Server Settings: Sometimes, server settings can cause issues with URL accessibility. Make sure your web server is configured correctly to return a 200 status code for existing pages and a 404 status code for missing pages.
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Use Google Search Console: Check if the URL appears in Google Search Console under the Coverage report. This can help you identify if there are any issues with the URL that might be causing it not to be indexed.
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Contact Hosting Provider: If everything seems correct on your end, consider reaching out to your web hosting provider to ensure there are no server-side issues affecting the accessibility of your URLs.
If you continue to experience problems after trying these steps, 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!
Hello,
Please make sure you’re using the latest version of the Instant Indexing plugin on your website: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fast-indexing-api/#developers
However, since you’re getting the error while trying to Get Status, please try to submit the URL in Publish/Update URL first as Google isn’t aware of the URL. Once done, please check the URL again with Get URL Status.
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello, I followed all of the steps to troubleshoot this issue. I also contacted the hosting support, but from their side, there was no problem with this issue. So please try to solve the issue. Otherwise, many of us will not use your plugin as it causes problems nowadays. Everyone is facing the same problem.
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Hello,
It’s important to emphasize that the situation with the “Get status” returning a 404 error happens when the URL being tested was not previously submitted to the Indexing API.
So, you need to first submit it, and wait for Google to parse it and only then you can request the status for the URL.
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 URLs will never be parsed by the API.
You can check the full guidelines here: https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quickstart
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Now, what should I do? I checked the URL and all the others. Everything is okay. Kindly tell me what you suggest to fix the issue.
I had used indexing API properly also. So will you help to fix the issue or not?
Hello,
As we mentioned the API is only for two types of websites (job posting and live streams) and goes through rigorous spam detection due to recent changes in Google, it’s much more difficult to get URLs into the API.
So, unless you have one of the website types we mentioned and the content is unique, you won’t be able to use this feature consistently and you shouldn’t as the API was never intended for it as mentioned in our own documentation.
The bottom line is that our submissions to the API are working fine, but if the pages are not accepted into it because of guidelines issues, there’s nothing we can do.
The Instant Indexing plugin was put through rigorous testing and we can see the submissions are working, but we cannot force Google to accept them as mentioned multiple times before.
Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
Thank you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
