Title: Always Getting Invalid API Key Error
Last modified: November 25, 2022

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# Always Getting Invalid API Key Error

 *  [ABX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buddha1822/)
 * (@buddha1822)
 * [3 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-getting-invalid-api-key-error/)
 * I just installed this plugin last week on my WordPress install (still running
   5.7.2 but it’s stable and works fine). The plugin works fine, no problems, but
   after a few hours the API Key seems to stop working. For the first few hours 
   after activating the plugin, it shows submitted URLs as successful.” But after
   about 6-8 hours later, everything changes and then every URL submitted says “
   Failed – Invalid API Key.” I have to de-activate and activate the plugin againf
   rom scratch for this to fix itself. If I leave it, it stays this way and then
   every URL submitted has the “Invalid API Key” error.
 * Why is this happening? It works fine at first and some URLs DO submit successfully,
   but then it all changes and I can’t figure out why. There’s no other settings
   or options or anything else to look at with the plugin. When it’s active, I can’t
   find any meta in the header of my site showing or listing the API Key. I know
   I an get API Keys myself from the Bing website, but I can’t add them or change
   them within the app. What’s going on? Why does this error keep happening day 
   after day after day no matter how many times I re-activate the plugin??

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 *  Thread Starter [ABX](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buddha1822/)
 * (@buddha1822)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-getting-invalid-api-key-error/#post-16290530)
 * Is there any support for this? Any help solving these problems? I had to uninstall
   the plugin because it keeps breaking like this… And no support, no fixes. No 
   idea what to do about this.
 *  [mykkal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mykkal/)
 * (@mykkal)
 * [3 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-getting-invalid-api-key-error/#post-16299647)
 * I don’t think they are supporting this or answering questions on defects.
 *  [luanelezi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luanelezi/)
 * (@luanelezi)
 * [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-getting-invalid-api-key-error/#post-16550051)
    1. Check your robots.txt be sure u don’t block search engines
    2. go to wp-admin/options-reading.php look on (Search engine visibility) if checkbox
       is checked remove it
    3. uninstall and reinstall the indexnow plugin
 *  -  This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by [luanelezi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luanelezi/).

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 * Last activity: [3 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/always-getting-invalid-api-key-error/#post-16550051)
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