Technical SEO FAQ · Indexing, Canonicalization & Duplicate Content
How do you investigate "Crawled - currently not indexed"?
Treat the status as a diagnostic clue, not a diagnosis.
Investigate:
- uniqueness;
- content depth;
- canonical;
- internal linking;
- sitemap inclusion;
- rendering;
- HTTP response;
- duplicate clustering;
- page value;
- site-wide patterns.
If hundreds of valuable, unique pages show this status, investigate the common template or architecture.
If thousands of near-duplicate pages show it, the problem may be URL generation rather than crawling.
Google's documentation emphasizes that crawling does not guarantee indexing.
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