If you see “Discovered – currently not indexed” in Google Search Console, it means Google is aware of the URL, but hasn’t crawled and indexed it yet.
It doesn’t necessarily mean the page will never be processed. As their documentation says, they may come back to it later without any extra effort on your part.
But other factors could be preventing Google from crawling and indexing the page, including:
- Server issues and onsite technical issues restricting or preventing Google’s crawl capability.
- Issues relating to the page itself, such as quality.
You can also use Google Search Console Inspection API to queue URLs for their coverageState status (as well as other useful data points) en masse.
Request indexing via Google Search Console
This is an obvious resolution and for the majority of cases, it will resolve the issue.
Sometimes, Google is simply slow to crawl new URLs – it happens. But other times, underlying issues are the culprit.
When you request indexing, one of two things might happen:
- URL becomes “Crawled – currently not indexed”
- Temporary indexing
Both are symptoms of underlying issues.
The second happens because requesting indexing sometimes gives your URL a temporary “freshness boost” which can take the URL above the requisite quality threshold and, in turn, lead to temporary indexing.
Page quality issues
This is where vocabulary can get confusing. I've been asked, "How can Google determine the page quality if it hasn't been crawled yet?"
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