Technical SEO FAQ · Indexing, Canonicalization & Duplicate Content
How do you investigate "Discovered - currently not indexed"?
Start with discovery and crawl efficiency.
Check:
- XML sitemap;
- internal links;
- URL patterns;
- crawl budget;
- server capacity;
- URL duplication;
- faceted navigation;
- publication freshness.
If a site has a large number of URLs in this state, Google specifically identifies this as one of the situations where crawl-budget analysis may be useful.
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