Crawled, currently not indexed: a practical diagnostic workflow
Investigate crawled but unindexed URLs by checking current observations, grouping patterns and testing changes you can evaluate later.
Practical guides to investigate unindexed URLs, monitor changes and prioritize work with Search Console, GA4 and Reindexa.
Investigate crawled but unindexed URLs by checking current observations, grouping patterns and testing changes you can evaluate later.
Understand the difference between discovered and crawled URLs, and choose checks that separate discovery, crawling and indexing.
Interpret URLs marked unindexed in a saved report but indexed in a later inspection, without confusing snapshots with current observations.
Understand the URL Inspection API, its stored observations, authorization requirements and the difference between checking and requesting indexing.
Build a recurring URL review that separates successful checks, pending work and errors while accounting for available inspection capacity.
Read inspection histories without confusing query timestamps, last crawl dates and the precise moment Google changed indexing status.
Define the denominator, inspection freshness and coverage before comparing percentages of crawled but unindexed content.
Compare content groups using equivalent cohorts, dates and inspection coverage to uncover patterns hidden in a site-wide average.
Separate blog, store and other hosts without mixing their URLs or confusing analysis exclusions with restrictions applied to Google.
Classify tracking, filtering and content parameters before excluding URLs from an SEO review or Reindexa Cleanup analysis.
Identify low-activity content and decide what to update, merge or retain without treating zero visits as an automatic deletion instruction.
Separate indexing, impressions, clicks and measurement when investigating an indexed page with no recorded Google Analytics 4 visits.
Choose consistent channel, source and medium filters when comparing organic traffic with indexing observations across projects.
Check definitions, filters, dates and measurement when Search Console and Google Analytics 4 report different organic traffic totals.
Investigate declared and Google-selected canonical differences by checking content, internal links, sitemaps and redirects.
Distinguish crawl restrictions from indexing directives and investigate conflicts between robots.txt, meta tags and HTTP headers.
Review how pages are discovered and connected, investigate isolated content and add useful internal links without promising indexing.
Review sitemap addresses, responses, canonicals and dates while distinguishing page discovery from inclusion in Google’s index.
Organize projects, accounts and exports to explain URL changes, missing observations and the work an agency client should prioritize.
Document a hypothesis, preserve a fixed cohort and compare indexing observations and traffic after updating existing content.
These guides combine official documentation with workflows proposed by the Reindexa team. Numerical examples are illustrative. An inspection does not guarantee that Google will index a page.