| Crawled, currently not indexed | Thin or duplicate content, weak internal links, low perceived value, or a very new site | Improve the page's content and purpose, add internal links from strong pages, merge or remove near-duplicates, then request indexing |
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| Discovered, currently not indexed | Google knows the URL but has not crawled it: crawl priority is low, the site is new, or the server is slow | Link to the page from prominent places, improve server speed, submit a clean sitemap and reduce low-value URLs |
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| Duplicate without user-selected canonical | Several similar URLs and no clear preferred version | Set a self-referencing canonical, consolidate duplicates with redirects, fix parameters and trailing-slash variants |
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| Duplicate, Google chose a different canonical | Google disagrees with your canonical because pages are near-identical | Make the pages meaningfully different or point canonical to the page you really want |
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| Excluded by noindex tag | A noindex tag or header left from development or added by a plugin | Remove it from pages that should rank, and keep it only on pages that should not |
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| Blocked by robots.txt | A disallow rule covers the page or folder | Correct the rule, test it and resubmit |
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| Page with redirect | The URL redirects elsewhere, which is normal for old addresses | Confirm the target is correct, and update internal links to point to the final URL |
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| Not found (404) | Deleted or mistyped URLs, often in old sitemaps or links | Restore, redirect to the closest page or remove the link and sitemap entry |
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| Server error (5xx) | Hosting overload, misconfiguration or downtime | Fix hosting or configuration, then validate the fix in Search Console |
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