429 Indexing Issue For 2 Months

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

When you see a 429 error it means that the IP address of your website is sending too many requests to the API.

Also, that error suggests that you are exhausting the quota limit for the number of publishing requests per day.

Can you please confirm if you have selected the Auto-Submit Post Types? If yes, the post will be automatically sent to the IndexNow API when a post is published, updated, or trashed.

However, if you have other websites on the same server or are on shared hosting, There’s a possibility that other websites may be using up the quota.

I can suggest that you request more quota to serve the requests that your site is making by following the steps on the link below:
https://developers.google.com/search/apis/indexing-api/v3/quota-pricing

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

Thank you.

Hello,

Please note that if you have automatic submissions set for any post type, each time you save an edit to a post inside that post type it will trigger a submission:
https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-use-indexnow/#automatic-url-submission

This might cause a high number of submissions if you are constantly making changes and saving them.

To test and debug this further, can you please try disabling all post type that is under automatic submissions in your instant indexing settings?

Then, wait for another 24 hours and try submitting again.

Let us know how this goes.

Thank you.

Hello,

We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

We understand the frustration of having something not working but in this particular case, we are sure that the issue is not from the IndexNow API implementation.

If you have a couple of minutes to test this you can simply do it by installing the following plugin from Bing on your website: https://wordpress.org/plugins/indexnow/

It is also reporting an error when trying to submit an URL:

This excludes the odd possibility that the issue would be with our plugin and not a general issue with your server/website making the requests for the submission API.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need our assistance with anything else.