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Request indexing fails with "Oops! Something went wrong" — even on the first attempt of the day. Anyone else seeing this?

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Hi all — posting here because we've run out of things to check on our side. Disclosure: this is about our own site.

Site: our site (self-hosted WordPress).

Symptom: In URL Inspection, every "Request indexing" submission ends with this error dialog: "Oops! Something went wrong" "We had a problem submitting your indexing request. Please try again later."

Timeline (America/Toronto): - Nov 1, 2026 — every attempt failed - Nov 8, 2026 — 5 attempts, all failed - Nov 9, 2026 — the very first submission of the day failed immediately

The "Quota exceeded" message has never appeared, and the failure happens on the first attempt of the day, before any daily limit could plausibly come into play.

What we've already checked: - Manual actions: "No issues detected." Security issues: "No issues detected." - The Search Status Dashboard shows no indexing incident on those dates. - Sitemap discovery works normally: after submitting our 5 sub-sitemaps individually, Search Console reports 644 discovered pages.…

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