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There are dozens of reports in the Google Webmaster Help forums that the submit URL to Google via the Fetch as Googlebot feature is not working.
I tested it myself and it is indeed not working.
When I navigate to the "Fetch As Googlebot" under the "Diagnostics" section. I then fetch a URL and it works. After you fetch the URL Google often lets you submit it to the index. When you try that, it returns an error that reads, "There was an error processing your request."
Here is a picture I mashed up of the tool with the error:
I am not sure how used this feature is, but John Mueller from Google said:
The team is currently working on that and hoping to have it resolved in the near future.
The issue was first reported last Thursday.
Forum discussion at Google Webmaster Help.
Comments:
Hsusains4ever
04/30/2012 12:18 pm
Yes same here. when we are submitting our site for index its giving an error.
Steve
04/30/2012 01:02 pm
Thanks for the post, I was running around in circles trying to sort out a problem I don't actually have :)
Jlv
04/30/2012 01:18 pm
Good to know, I thought it was just me. I only tried using this for the first time a couple of weeks ago..
Vamsi M
04/30/2012 01:22 pm
I hope their crawler submits the links to index using the error logs after the issue is fixed.
Cochineal
04/30/2012 02:31 pm
the same problem:(
Greenzizzle
04/30/2012 02:56 pm
I having the same issues with my website 2four6.com
Fastpartz
04/30/2012 03:28 pm
yup - same here - trying to get a rebuild to be cached/clear out the holding page from their cache and nada - http://fastpartz.com
John
04/30/2012 05:03 pm
I though I was only me, but yeah, It is not working since 4 or 5 days ago.
Jay I EntranceUniversity.com
04/30/2012 05:19 pm
i have the same crawling issue in my website http://colegentrance.blogspot.com.
Ansh
04/30/2012 06:32 pm
The complete google quality team is crying for only quality but if they are not indexing sites how they can provide the quality as much they want????????
Ansh
04/30/2012 06:32 pm
The complete google quality team is crying for only quality but if they are not indexing sites how they can provide the quality as much they want????????
SilverMatrixx
04/30/2012 07:58 pm
I have resubmitted my sitemap but only 13 from 64 pages are indexed now.It was indexed 64 before.
Chris Williams
05/01/2012 05:08 am
It's fixed, found out here: and it works now. http://botcrawl.com/fetch-as-googlebot-april-2012-there-was-an-error-processing-your-request-google-update/
Scottantonybrown
05/01/2012 09:09 am
I have submitted a site this morning and it is still not fixed as I am still receiving the error message
Tommy Edelblut
05/06/2012 01:03 am
I just tried to use this feature and was getting this error. Thanks for the info.
Jessie
05/29/2012 04:21 am
it's still screwing up, as of May 28. Did 8, failed on the 9th one.
tony k
07/04/2012 12:37 am
so how do coupons websites can be ok with that such as retailmenot and www.fyddo.com those websites all somthing in comment ( alot of affiliate links
Evren İnanç
08/05/2012 01:51 pm
Problem still persists as of August 5, 2012
davenoble
08/20/2012 11:17 am
Looks like maybe a time delay. I successfully submitted every other request, then waited a bit, then went back to re-submit more. One more went ok, then the next one failed. I would guess it is in a busy state and cannot take another submission. If this is found true, it might be a better message to display "submit busy, please try again later"
Guest
08/24/2012 02:55 am
9:53 pm August 23, 2012. Just got the error. Ah, quality. . . . .
Peter
09/02/2012 04:35 am
Yeah, the problem is still ongoing. It gave me a fright, as I'd thought my site had a problem!