Why is "Request Indexing" not working in Google Search Console?

A few reasons why the button may be grayed out, disabled, or not working:

• Daily quota reached - Each property has a limited number of indexing requests per day. Wait 24 hours and try again.
• Temporary feature limitations - Google has occasionally paused or rate-limited this feature. Check the Search Console Help for any known issues.
• URL not eligible - The URL may be blocked by robots.txt or have a noindex tag, preventing it from being indexed regardless.

For bulk indexing, submitting an updated sitemap is more reliable than using the Request Indexing button on individual pages.

How AutoPSEO helps

AutoPSEO’s Indexing Monitor watches up to 1,800 URLs per site with the URL Inspection API, flags pages that drop out of the index or have not been crawled for 120+ days, and can push changed URLs to Bing, Yandex and Naver through IndexNow. Alerts arrive by email, Slack, Teams or webhook.