Crawled - currently not indexed

The status sits under Why pages aren’t indexed in the Page indexing report. Google’s help page says the page was crawled but not indexed, that it may or may not be indexed in the future, and that there is no need to resubmit the URL for crawling.

The same page sets the expectation plainly: don’t expect every URL on your site to be indexed; make sure the key pages are. Google’s guide to how Search works says the same from the other side: indexing is not guaranteed, not every page Google processes is indexed, and among the common reasons it names are low-quality content, robots meta rules that forbid indexing, and a site design that makes indexing difficult.

Export the list and sort it by folder before judging: a few hundred URLs that are all ?sort= or /page/ is a different story from twenty product pages. The report can also be filtered to the URLs in your sitemap, which are the ones you said you want indexed.

Google does not say why it left out a given page, so these are the places to look, not a diagnosis:

• Is there enough on it that is its own? Google names low-quality content as a common reason pages are not indexed, and gives no number for it. An audit cannot judge quality either; what it can measure are signs: very little text (CONTENT-001), or text that repeats another page of yours almost word for word (CONTENT-008).
• Does your own site link to it? Google uses links to find pages and as a signal of what they are about, and asks that every page you care about have a link from at least one other page of the site (Google). A page reached only through the sitemap is an orphan (LINK-005); one hanging on a single link is one step from it (LINK-007).
• Does it say what it is, and which address it is? A clear title and heading, and a canonical that names the page itself (INDEX-003). A canonical that names another page asks Google to index that one instead (INDEX-004).
• Can Google see what a person sees? Run URL Inspection’s live test and look at the rendered page. Text drawn by a script that failed for Google is text Google did not read.

Then change what needs changing and let Google come back. The status is re-judged when the page is crawled again.

• Resubmitting an unchanged page. Google’s help says there is no need to resubmit these URLs for crawling. Asking again for a page that has not changed asks Google to look at the same thing.
• Validating every line. The help page says it does not always make sense to fix and validate an issue, and that counts update as Google recrawls anyway. Validate the pages you changed.
• Treating the total as a score. Google gives no share of a site that should be indexed. A thousand filter URLs in this list can be a healthy site; ten missing products are worth more of your time.

The two statuses sit next to each other and mean different things. Discovered - currently not indexed is a page Google found and has not crawled yet; its help page says this is typically because crawling it was expected to overload the site, so the crawl was rescheduled, and the last crawl date is empty. Crawled - currently not indexed is a page Google did read. The first is about crawling; this one is about the page.

Is it a penalty? No. Manual actions are reported in their own report in Search Console. This status is the ordinary outcome of Google choosing what to index.

Should I request indexing in URL Inspection? After you have changed the page, it asks Google to look again. Before, there is nothing new for it to see.

Should I put these pages on noindex? Only the ones you do not want in search, such as internal search results. Then they move to “URL marked ‘noindex’”, which says what you meant. Do not noindex a page you want indexed in the hope of a fresh start.

How long until it changes? Google gives no time. Each URL is judged again when it is crawled again.

The Trakis audit reads every page and reports the measurable signs above, counted once per problem with the pages it covers: short pages, pages that repeat each other, pages nothing links to, missing or misdirected canonicals. Create a free account and add your site, or see every Search Console status, explained.