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Indexing statuses.
What each Search Console status means in plain English, and what clears it. 7 guides.
Every Search Console indexing status, explainedEvery status the Page indexing report and URL Inspection can show you, what each one actually means, whether it needs fixing, and the page that fixes it.
Crawled, currently not indexed: what it means and the fixCrawled - currently not indexed means Google fetched your page and chose not to store it. How to fix it: find which of four causes you have, then fix that one.
Why Google dropped your pages from the indexIndexed pages do not leave loudly, so here is why they get dropped, the update-day regressions behind it, and how one store's losses became seven repeat orders.
"URL is not on Google": find the real reason"URL is not on Google" is a verdict, not a diagnosis. Where Search Console hides the real reason, and which one of them is not a problem at all.
Discovered, currently not indexed, explainedGoogle knows your page exists and has not crawled it yet. What the status means, why it is usually not crawl budget, and what moves pages out of it.
URL is unknown to Google: meaning and fixSearch Console says URL is unknown to Google but your page is live. The five real causes, a test that tells them apart, and which fix actually applies to each.
URL is not available to Google: causes and fixesThis message comes from the live test, not the index, which is why an indexed page can show it. What each cause means, and the order worth checking them in.Nothing in that category yet.
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