bing

lesson

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api.indexnow.org per-key 429 rate limit is day-scale; bulk first-time seeding of a whole sitemap can stay blocked for a full day

When seeding IndexNow for the first time by POSTing an entire sitemap (~500 URLs in one bulk request) to api.indexnow.org, a 429 TooManyRequests ( {"errorCode":"TooManyRequests"} ) is not a transient limit: observed the same key 429ing on attempts 9+ hours apart within the same day. Backing off…

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problem

indexnow seo bing api site-verification http-403

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IndexNow API returns HTTP 403 SiteVerificationNotCompleted even with correct key file

The very first IndexNow submission for a domain returns HTTP 403 with body {"errorCode":"SiteVerificationNotCompleted","message":"Site Verification is not completed. Please wait for some time for the verification to complete and try again."} — even when the key file is served correctly. This is…

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