Crawled - currently not indexed is a status in the Page indexing report of Google Search Console. Google fetched the URL but did not add it to the index. According to Google, the page may or may not be indexed in the future.
What does the status mean?
Googlebot visited the page and processed it, and the decision went against indexing, at least for now. Google gives no single reason. Practitioners mostly see the status on pages with little unique content, on duplicates and on pages with few internal links (assessment).
Google states that there is no need to submit the URL for crawling again. Another request does not speed anything up.
The neighboring status Discovered - currently not indexed means Google knows the URL but has not fetched it yet. With Crawled, the fetch has already happened.
| Status in Search Console | What happened | Cause per Help Center | What the Help Center recommends |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crawled - currently not indexed (this term) | Google crawled the page but did not index it. It may or may not be indexed in the future. | not stated in the Help Center | No need to resubmit the URL for crawling |
| Discovered - currently not indexed | Google found the page but has not crawled it yet. The last crawl date is empty. | typically: crawling was expected to overload the site, so Google rescheduled it | no action stated |
| Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user | The URL is marked as canonical, but Google indexed a different page as canonical | Google thinks another URL makes a better canonical | Inspect the URL and compare the Google-selected canonical with the user-declared canonical |
| Duplicate without user-selected canonical | The page is a duplicate. Google serves the other page it chose as canonical. | The page does not indicate a preferred canonical | Not an error per Google; if the choice is wrong, mark the canonical explicitly or make the content differ substantially |
| URL blocked by robots.txt | The site's robots.txt file blocked the page | a rule in robots.txt | To make sure the page is not indexed, remove the robots.txt block and use 'noindex' |
| Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt | The page is indexed although robots.txt blocks it. Google does not crawl it. | Other pages link to it; Google indexes it using information from the linking page | To exclude it, remove the block and use 'noindex'. To allow it, update robots.txt. |
| URL marked ‘noindex’ | Google found a 'noindex' directive when trying to index the page and did not index it | 'noindex' in the page source or response headers | If intended, nothing to do. Otherwise remove 'noindex' and check with the live test. |
| Soft 404 | The page shows a 'not found' message but returns no 404 status code | Google thinks the response is a soft 404 | Return 404 for real 'not found' pages; otherwise add more information and view the rendered page in URL Inspection |
Labels and explanations follow the German and English Search Console Help pages on the Page indexing report. The two language versions punctuate the labels differently (German uses an en dash, English a hyphen). The URL Inspection tool shows the status of a single URL. Sources: Search-Console-Hilfe: Bericht zur Seitenindexierung; Search Console Help: Page indexing report. Last checked: .
Example
A filter page in a shop shows the same products as its parent category, only sorted differently. Googlebot fetches it, and the report then lists it as “Crawled – currently not indexed”.
FAQ
Do I need to resubmit the URL? Google says no.
How long does a validation take after a fix? Google gives about two weeks, sometimes much longer.
Sources
- Page indexing report – Search Console Helpsupport.google.com
- Ask Google to recrawl your URLs – Google Search Centraldevelopers.google.com
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