Which pages are in the index, and why others are not.
WHERE
Search Console's indexing report lists pages by status.
THE STATUSES
Indexed: the page is in the index and can rank
Crawled, currently not indexed: found but judged not worth indexing, usually thin or duplicate content Discovered, currently not indexed: known but not yet crawled, often on large sites or slow servers
- Excluded by noindex: you told it not to index
- Blocked by robots.txt: crawling was prevented
- Not found (404): the URL returns an error
- Redirect: the URL redirects elsewhere
- Duplicate: another page was chosen as canonical
WHAT TO ACT ON
Pages you want indexed that are not Errors on URLs that should work A large number of pages excluded as duplicates, which suggests a canonical problem
WHAT NOT TO WORRY ABOUT
Excluded pages that should be excluded: tag archives, paginated pages, admin URLs.
Not every page needs indexing. A site where every URL is indexed frequently has a thin-content problem.
REQUESTING INDEXING
Available for individual URLs. Useful for new or updated important pages, not for bulk submission.
