Crawled - currently not indexed means Googlebot fetched your page and then decided not to add it to search results, for now. Google says it may or may not be indexed later and that you do not need to resubmit it. The usual fix is making the page more useful and better linked, not asking again.
| Status | Did Google fetch the page? | What usually helps |
|---|---|---|
| Crawled - currently not indexed | Yes | Improve the content and the links pointing to it |
| Discovered - currently not indexed | No, the crawl was postponed | Server capacity, internal links, sitemap |
| URL marked 'noindex' | Yes, and it found a noindex rule | Remove the rule if you want it indexed |
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This status is a decision, not an error. Google could read the page and chose not to keep it, which is why nothing in the report points at a broken tag. Run the checklist below against one affected page: every box you cannot tick is a likely reason, with the fix next to it.
Tick what is true for the page. Each unticked box shows the fix to try.
URL Inspection's live test shows the rendered HTML. If your main text only appears after a script runs, view the source to confirm it is there for crawlers too.
A self-referencing canonical with an absolute address, a unique title and description, and no robots rule blocking indexing.
<head>
<title>Emergency plumber in Leeds, 24 hours | Hart Plumbing</title>
<meta name="description" content="Burst pipe or no hot water? We reach most of Leeds within an hour, day or night.">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.hartplumbing.example/emergency-plumber-leeds">
</head>In the Page indexing report, Google describes this status as a page that was crawled but not indexed, which may or may not be indexed in the future, with no need to resubmit. That is the whole official explanation, so anything more specific you read elsewhere is educated guessing.
Google does not publish a list of reasons. The common thread in its documentation is quality and duplication: pages that add little beyond other pages, on your site or elsewhere, are the ones left out.
Most sites have some URLs here that nobody would search for: search result pages, print versions, tag archives, pagination. If a URL in the list would not help a searcher, leave it alone or stop linking to it.
Worry when the list holds your service pages, product pages or main articles. Those are the pages worth the checklist.
Google's help page says there is no need to resubmit the URL for crawling. A single request through URL Inspection after you have genuinely improved the page is reasonable; repeating the request without changes does nothing useful.
No. A manual action shows up in its own Manual actions report. This status only means the page did not make the cut for the index at the moment Google looked.
Google gives no timeline for this status. Its URL Inspection help says indexing after a request usually takes a day or so but can take much longer, and that a request does not guarantee indexing.
Young sites with few links pointing at them often see this. Google has seen the post but has little reason yet to treat it as important. Linking to new posts from older, visited pages helps.
Sometimes. If the page only shows its text after JavaScript runs and that fails, or if it looks like a near copy of another page, Google may skip it. Use the live test in URL Inspection to see the page as Google renders it.
Related: Why is my website not showing on Google?, Discovered - currently not indexed, Google Search Console guide, On-page SEO checklist, Duplicate without user-selected canonical.
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