Crawled - currently not indexed
Crawled - currently not indexed
Google fetched the page and chose not to index it. The fix is the page, not a resubmit button.
Search Console uses this status when Googlebot downloaded the URL and then decided it was not worth keeping in the index. The crawl succeeded. A request to “index this URL” does not change that decision.
The usual causes are thin or duplicate copy, a page that only renders in the browser, weak internal links, or a canonical that points somewhere else. Compare the HTML Google received with the page you see after JavaScript runs.
IndexDoctor’s free check shows whether the words are in the server HTML, whether robots meta allows indexing, and whether the canonical matches the URL. The URL Inspection API, on a paid plan, shows Google’s own coverage state.
What to check
- View source, not the rendered DOM, and confirm the title, H1, and main copy are present.
- Make the page useful on its own. A filter URL or tag page often stays crawled and unindexed.
- Link to it from an indexed page and include the final URL in the sitemap.
Fix prompt
Example prompt
Google crawled this URL and left it out of the index. Put the useful copy in the server-rendered HTML, give it a unique title and H1, set a self-referencing canonical, and link to it from an indexed page. Do not call an indexing API.
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