Google Search Console's "Hostload Exceeded"

Over the weekend, many publishers faced the cryptic error "Failure: hostload exceeded" while trying to index their webpages. Assumptions were made, fingers were pointed at web hosts, but the real story? It's on Google's side!

🔹 John Mueller from Google clarified:
- It's NOT a web host issue.
- The likely cause? Some users are spamming the indexing tool by submitting too many URLs.
- Normal crawling & indexing are unaffected.

🤔 Quality issues? Mueller hints that it might be a concern, but no direct confirmation yet.

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First published on LinkedIn on Oct 23, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC (original). Kept here in full so it stays available.

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