Google's John Mueller Says Crawled/Discovered Pages Not Indexed May Signal Low Site Quality
TLDR
Google's John Mueller reiterated that the Crawled/Discovered - Currently Not Indexed status in Search Console's page indexing report can indicate Google doesn't consider a site or its pages high-quality enough to index.
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John Mueller of Google said again that seeing the Crawled/Discovered - Currently Not Indexed status in Google Search Console's page indexing report may mean Google doesn't think the site or those pages are high-quality enough to index. The point is not new, as SERoundtable notes.
How we got here: earlier coverage
On July 16, Google's John Mueller said that low-quality and AI-generated content often leads to reduced crawling and indexing, which appears as 'crawled—currently not indexed' in Search Console. On November 3, Google updated its help documentation for that status, stating that Google doesn't index all pages, that the message is common, and that it doesn't necessarily indicate an issue. Now, Mueller has reiterated that the Crawled or Discovered - Currently Not Indexed status can indicate Google doesn't consider a site or its pages high-quality enough to index.
Summary of earlier coverage
- Nov 3Google Updates Page Indexing Help Docs on 'Crawled - Currently Not Indexed'
Google has updated the Page indexing report help documentation for the 'Crawled - currently not indexed' status, now stating that Google doesn't index all pages, that this is a common message, and that it doesn't necessarily indicate an issue.
- Nov 3Sites With Only Their Homepage Indexed May Be Hit by a Google Search Quality Issue
SERoundtable reports that a site where only the home page is indexed by Google may be dealing with a Google Search quality issue rather than a purely technical problem.
- Sep 9Google Confirms Brief Search Console Indexing Reporting Bug
Google confirmed a brief Search Console bug yesterday that incorrectly reported pages as not indexed, now resolved.
- Jul 16Google Explains How Low-Quality and AI-Generated Content Triggers Indexing Issues
Google's John Mueller clarifies that low-quality and AI-generated content often triggers reduced crawling and indexing, showing as 'crawled—currently not indexed' in Search Console.