Rise in Crawled-Currently-Not-Indexed Pages: What It Means for Your SEO Strategy

According to Marie Haynes, almost every monitored site has seen a rise in pages marked "crawled—currently not indexed" in Google Search Console since March 2026. While Google confirmed at its Toronto Search Central event that this can stem from technical issues or content quality assessments, Haynes speculates the shift reflects Google's move toward using the index primarily as grounding for AI systems rather than for human search results, suggesting content creators should audit commodity content and prepare websites for autonomous AI agents navigating the emerging "agentic web."