The Fetch as Google tool on Search Console displays the message An error has occurred Please try again later, after you submit 9-10 index requests.

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Twice in the terminal few weeks, I submitted multiple links using the Fetch as Google tool to make certain certain pages were either added or updated in the Google index, and while doing and so, I began receiving the dreaded message "An mistake has occurred. Delight try again subsequently."

The Trouble

In the by, Google allotted a quota of 10 number of index requests per month. But evidently, the system has changed, and in that location is no longer any quota listed when hovering over the two crawl options:

There is no longer a crawl quota in the Fetch as Google tool.

It seemed similar I was simply able to go through about 10 alphabetize asking submissions before I started getting the error message, so I switched to a unlike account to start over and keep count.

I was able to submit 9 index requests before I got the "An error occurred" message on the 10th asking. A user on a Webmaster Central Help Forum post indicated near the aforementioned limit:

At that place is a global consequence in Google search console with submitting URLs every bit you lot have described. Will permit you lot submit ten URLs (per twenty-four hour period) and so error message appears.

Note that yous tin submit some additional requests using the "Crawl this URL and its straight links" option, even later hitting the limit using the "Crawl but this URL" option, and so there must be a carve up limit for both.

I did endeavour switching the crawl device from "Desktop" to "Mobile: Smartphone", only it did not permit me to submit whatever additional requests.

According to the higher up linked forum post, users pointed out that the Fetch as Google tool was never meant to get a whole bunch of pages indexed by Google. They accept all the automated means in the world to crawl sites and notice new or updated content, and so I can see that. All the same, it's still overnice to immediately give Google knowledge of a change I made and encounter it updated quickly on SERPs.

I guess what that boils down to is that we should never have gotten used to submitting so many links through that tool, if that'south truly non what Google intended it to be.

Solutions

So where does that leave us?

  1. You tin however submit 9-10 URLs per 24-hour period and per crawling pick ("Crawl only this URL" or "Crawl this URL and its direct links"), for a total of 18-twenty requests per twenty-four hours.
  2. You tin give additional users admission to your property, and when they access the Fetch as Google tool, they can submit additional URLs via their Search Console account.
  3. If you take new URLs you want to let Google know about, make sure they are in your sitemap.xml file and resubmit it to Google.
  4. If you lot accept a agglomeration of pages on your site that have inverse, and you want to permit Google know about the changes, you can no longer submit the URLs individually, since you will speedily hit the 9-10 limit. A way effectually this would be to create a separate web folio with links to the updated pages, then submit an index request for that page using the "Crawl this URL and its directly links" option.

Your Turn!

Did you lot land here considering you've received this error too? What solution did you use to go past this upshot? Let'south hash out below in the comments!

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