John Mueller Downplays Concerns Over Delays in the Search Console Indexing Report
TLDR
Google's John Mueller downplayed how much the freshness of the Search Console page indexing report matters, telling people on Reddit to save their energy.
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John Mueller said on Reddit that it can feel important to focus on the freshness of the Search Console page indexing report, but advised people to "save your energy." He was responding to SERoundtable's earlier coverage of the report's recent slowness.
How we got here
- Sep 18Google Explains How Publishers Can Prevent Indexing Problems From Cross-Domain Canonicals
John Mueller addressed how cross-domain canonicals can cause de-indexing and how publishers should monitor for such issues.
- Sep 5Google rolls out Search Console AI reports globally; Mueller discusses recovery timing and markdown
Google has made its AI-powered Search Console reports available worldwide, while John Mueller addressed crawler markdown handling and recovery timing.
- Aug 19Why Google Doesn't Announce Search Updates Until After Rankings Shift
Google's John Mueller clarifies the reasoning behind the company's practice of announcing search updates after they've already begun affecting rankings.
- 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.