Discovered - currently not indexed means Google has found the address of your page, usually from a link or sitemap, but has not fetched it yet. Google's own explanation is that crawling was expected to overload the site, so it rescheduled. Faster responses, stronger internal links and an accurate sitemap are the levers you control.
| Lever | What it tells Google | Where to change it |
|---|---|---|
| Fast, error-free server responses | The site can take more crawling | Hosting plan, caching, fewer heavy pages |
| Internal links to the page | The page matters to the site | Menus, category pages, related links |
| Sitemap with honest lastmod | Which pages exist and when they changed | sitemap.xml |
| 404 or 410 for removed pages | Stop spending visits on dead addresses | Server or CMS settings |
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Unlike its crawled cousin, this status is about scheduling rather than judgement: Google has not read the page, so it has not formed an opinion of the content yet. That changes what you should fix. Start with the sitemap builder below to give Google a clean list of the pages that matter, then work on speed and links.
Full page addresses, one per line
Sitemap XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2026-10-14</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/services/boiler-repair</loc>
<lastmod>2026-10-14</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/contact</loc>
<lastmod>2026-10-14</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>3 addresses in the sitemap.
Built in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Google's sitemap guide lists a Sitemap line in robots.txt as one way to submit, alongside the Sitemaps report in Search Console.
The Sitemap line takes the full address of the sitemap, including https and the domain.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /cart/
Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xmlGoogle's Page indexing help says the page was found but not crawled because crawling was expected to overload the site, so the crawl was rescheduled. In plain terms, Google is being polite to your server.
Its crawl budget guide splits the decision into two parts: how much your server can take, and how much Google wants your pages. Demand rises with how popular and how fresh your pages look, and falls when many of your URLs are duplicates or dead ends.
If a page is crawled and still left out, the content is the suspect. If it is only discovered, the content has not been judged at all, so rewriting it will not help until Google actually visits.
Pages can move from discovered to crawled to indexed over time. A page jumping to crawled but not indexed is progress, and it tells you the next job is quality.
Google's crawl budget guide is written for very large or fast-changing sites, but it also lists any site with many URLs in Discovered - currently not indexed as an audience. Small sites usually see this for a short time after launch or a big batch of new pages.
For a handful of important pages, a request through URL Inspection can help. Google's help says there is a daily limit on requests and recommends a sitemap when you have many pages.
Yes. Google describes a crawl capacity limit, also called hostload, that caps how much time its crawlers spend holding connections to your server. A faster server raises how much Google is willing to fetch.
Google's sitemap guide limits a single sitemap to 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed. Larger sites split the list and point to the parts from a sitemap index file.
Only if they should not exist. Pages you removed on purpose should return 404 or 410 so Google stops trying them. Pages you want found need links and a sitemap entry, not deleting.
Related: Crawled - currently not indexed, Why is my website not showing on Google?, XML sitemap generator, Sitemap and robots.txt examples, Google Search Console guide.
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