Crawled Currently Not Indexed
Google read the page and left it out of the index. The status is not an error, but it often points to a content or linking problem.
The "Crawled - currently not indexed" status in the Search Console Page indexing report means Google's crawler has fetched the URL and read its contents, but has chosen not to add it to the index at this time. Google's own explanation is that the page "may or may not be indexed in the future; no need to resubmit this URL for crawling." This is not an indexing error in itself. The Page indexing report documentation states plainly: "Don't expect every URL on your site to be indexed."
"Discovered - currently not indexed" is an earlier stage: Google has found the URL but has not crawled it yet. Google explains that it typically wanted to crawl the URL but expected this to overload the site, so it rescheduled the crawl, which is why the last crawl date is empty.
Why Google may skip a page
Google's How Search works guide says indexing isn't guaranteed, and names low-quality content, robots meta rules that disallow indexing, and site design that makes indexing difficult as common issues. On blogs this usually comes down to:
- Thin or low-quality pages that add nothing to what is already indexed
- Duplicate content, or pages that change only minor elements of another page
- Weak internal linking, since Google finds pages mainly through links from known pages and through sitemaps
Crawl budget is rarely the cause on a small blog. Google's crawl budget guide says a site whose pages are crawled the same day they are published does not need it.
What does not help
Repeated indexing requests do not change the outcome. The URL Inspection documentation says submitting a request does not guarantee the page will appear in the index, and requests are limited by a daily quota per property. For crawled pages Google already says there is no need to resubmit.
Practical order of fixes
- Inspect a sample of affected URLs with URL Inspection: confirm there is no
noindex, the page is not blocked by robots.txt, and check the Google-selected canonical. - Decide whether each page deserves to be indexed. Merge near-duplicates, and remove or
noindexpages with no standalone value, such as empty tag pages. - Improve the pages that stay: make each one specific and more useful than what already ranks.
- Link to them from pages that are already indexed, such as category pages and related posts.
- Keep only canonical, indexable URLs in the sitemap.
- After a substantial change, request indexing once for key URLs, then watch the report over the following weeks.
If many URLs sit in "Discovered - currently not indexed", check that the hosting responds quickly and without server errors; the Crawl stats report under Settings shows host status. Menu names in Search Console can change. Even after all of this, Google makes the final decision about which pages to index.
