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If Search Console reports \u201cCrawled \u2013 currently not indexed,\u201d Google says it crawled the URL but has not indexed it. That label does not tell you why, and Google says you do not need to resubmit that URL just because it has this status (Page indexing report<\/a>).<\/strong> Before changing the page, decide whether this exact URL should appear in Search, then compare the report, the indexed URL Inspection record, the current live test, the page\u2019s canonical signals, and the answer Google can render. Each view answers a different question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This guide is for a human-facing page that has a distinct search job. A feed, duplicate URL, removed page, or intentionally excluded utility URL may be correctly absent. The aim is to find evidence for one useful action\u2014or to stop when the evidence supports no action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What \u201cCrawled \u2013 currently not indexed\u201d does and does not mean<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Google defines the status narrowly: it crawled the page, but did not index it. The page might be indexed later, or it might remain outside the index. The status alone does not identify a quality penalty, a robots.txt block, a noindex directive, a canonical problem, or a technical error. Search Console lists those conditions under their own issue types. Read the reason as an observed state, then diagnose the page itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That makes it different from \u201cDiscovered \u2013 currently not indexed.\u201d For that status, Google says it knows the URL but has not crawled it; the report has no last-crawl date. Google says this can happen when crawling a URL is expected to overload a site and the crawl is rescheduled. That is Google\u2019s general explanation, not proof that any particular site was overloaded. The Page indexing report documentation<\/a> also says that some URLs should not be indexed at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Use Google\u2019s reported reason<\/a> to choose the next check; a non-indexed URL is not automatically a defect.<\/caption>\n
What Search Console shows<\/th>What the label establishes<\/th>What it does not establish<\/th>First useful check<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n
Crawled \u2013 currently not indexed<\/th>Google crawled the URL and has not indexed it in the reported state.<\/td>Why it was not indexed, whether it will be indexed later, or whether the page needs a change.<\/td>Inspect the indexed record and its last crawl; compare the intended URL and the current page.<\/td><\/tr>\n
Discovered \u2013 currently not indexed<\/th>Google found the URL but has not crawled it; the report has no last-crawl date for it.<\/td>That the page was fetched, that crawl budget is the cause, or that the page has a content problem.<\/td>Check whether this URL should be indexed, then review useful internal discovery paths and the current sitemap.<\/td><\/tr>\n
URL marked noindex<\/th>Google encountered a noindex directive when it tried to index the page.<\/td>That the directive is accidental; it may be intentional.<\/td>Confirm the page\u2019s search purpose and inspect the current HTML and response headers before changing the directive.<\/td><\/tr>\n
Blocked by robots.txt<\/th>The crawl was blocked by a robots.txt rule.<\/td>That Google has seen a noindex directive. A crawler blocked from fetching the page cannot read it.<\/td>Check the matching rule and whether blocking the URL is intentional.<\/td><\/tr>\n
Duplicate or alternate canonical<\/th>Google sees another URL as the representative page, or the URL is an alternate version.<\/td>That the other URL is the wrong choice. Duplicate or alternate pages are often expected.<\/td>Compare the user-declared and Google-selected canonicals with the content and the intended owner.<\/td><\/tr>\n
Server, redirect, access, or soft 404 issue<\/th>Search Console reports a specific fetch or response problem.<\/td>That every URL in the same site or template has the same defect.<\/td>Reproduce the named issue on an affected URL and test a representative peer before applying a shared fix.<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Google also limits the example URL list in the Page indexing report and says it is not guaranteed to show every URL in a status. Use that report to spot patterns and affected groups. For the index state of one important page, use URL Inspection. If the issue appears across many URLs, group them by a shared template or response pattern before assuming they share one cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reconcile four dates before you edit anything<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A page can appear to have conflicting statuses because the screens describe different snapshots. Write down the date you checked the aggregate report, the \u201cLast crawl\u201d time shown for the indexed URL, the live-test time, and the date of the page\u2019s last meaningful change. Do not collapse those timestamps into one \u201ccurrent status.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Page indexing report summarizes known URLs and groups them by status. When a URL is indexed, the indexed URL Inspection result describes the version Google stored; its \u201cLast crawl\u201d field records when Google last fetched the URL. A crawl date alone does not prove the URL was indexed. Google says its stored version may differ from the current page. The Google-selected canonical is available in the indexed data, and Google notes that this value can be a few hours behind its index.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A live URL test is different again: it fetches the URL at the time of the test. It can show whether Google\u2019s inspection tool can access the current page, and\u2014when the test succeeds\u2014show a rendered screenshot, returned HTML, headers, loaded resources, and JavaScript console output. But it does not test whether the URL is a duplicate or predict Google\u2019s canonical choice. It also does not test manual actions, security issues, legal content removals, or temporary URL blocks; check the Manual Actions, Security Issues, or Removals reports when those conditions could explain an appearance problem. A successful test means the tested page can be crawled and parsed under those conditions; it does not guarantee indexing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use this sequence when the screens disagree:<\/p>\n\n\n\n