Submissions fail silently, automatic or manual
Submissions fail to get URLs indexed, whether sent automatically on publish or manually, and the plugin shows no clear error.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 31 December 2022 · last reported 1 February 2024
What's going wrong
Site owners report that the IndexNow plugin does nothing useful whether submissions are triggered automatically on publish or entered manually. One owner said automatic submission produced no result at all, and another found manual entries were not sent anywhere. Others saw submissions fail on every domain they tried, and some went weeks with no new pages indexed. The plugin gives little visible feedback, so owners cannot tell whether the problem is their site or the tool. Site owners want to know which URLs were accepted, which were rejected, and why. A fix is a monitor that tracks each submission through to indexing and sends an alert when one fails or stalls.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports.
Products affected
IndexNow Plugin.
Related problems
Who has this problem
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