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How an SEO Fixed a Weird Crawled Currently Not Indexed Issue - Search Engine Journal

Last updated Thursday, November 4, 2021 13:22 ET , Source: NewsService

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A technical SEO published a case study of how he solved a curious Crawled Currently Not Indexed problem on his site. While the solution he found might not be universal to others experiencing this problem, his method for identifying the problem and solving it presents a useful walkthrough for solving technical SEO problems.

What happened to his site indexing was really weird. But his solution was straightforward and makes sense.

I discovered a description of this problem on a tweet by Adam Gent (@Adoubleagent)

A little blog post about a technical SEO issue I had on my tiny website.

TL; DR – Google can get canonicalization very wrong which can impact SEO traffic.

— Adam Gent (@Adoubleagent) November 3, 2021

Crawled – Currently Not Indexed

There are many anecdotal reports of Crawled Currently Not Indexed on Facebook, Twitter and even in John Mueller’s Office-hours hangouts.

In a recent Office-hours hangout someone asked why Google Search Console (GSC) was showing Crawled Not Indexed but when you click through they turn out to be indexed. John Mueller answered that it’s just a lag between reports.

And in another Office-hours hangout John Mueller pointed out that it’s entirely normal for a site to have many page not be indexed.

He noted:

“…if you have a...



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