Updated on August 17, 2024
Are you also facing the issues that showing “discovered currently not indexed” in the Google Search Console? So here we have come up with solution that help you to get rid this problem and your site indexed status will start working. There are many uses that are facing same problem but they are not getting the accurate solution for that. If you want to know how to fix discovered currently not indexed then you have to read this whole blog to get the best solution for that, so that in coming future you will never face any types of issue related to this. Discovered – currently not indexed you will find in the search console section Coverage >> Excluded and here you will find the result that you are looking for. There are also might issue with your indexing so please check your GSC indexing.
What is Discovered Currently Not Indexed?
This mean that your website content has been discovered (in the eyes of the search engine) by the search engine but has been not crawled or indexed or not added to the search engine database so that they can show the result in the search engine for the specific result.
In simple words if any users will fire a query on the search engine that you have targeted for particular landing page that page will not show in the search result due to indexing.
Discovered doesn’t mean your site will start ranking on the SERP, it means search engine has been recognize your site URL or site landing page which you have added on your website.
Difference Between Crawling and Indexing?
Crawling: means a crawl or spider or bot that fetch your webpage content and provide a useful information on the SERP page to the users which they are looking for their specific query.
indexing: Refers to when your website content has been crawled then indexing will happened. When your site or landing page will indexed then your website or landing page start appear on the search engine SERP page for the keywords or query.
Note: Every crawled pages not indexed by search engine but every index pages get crawled by search engine.
What is Google Search Console?
Google Search Console is a tools that is provided by the Google to know about your site CTR, Click, Impression, Keywords Ranking, Page Experience, Location, Links, and many more things. This is a free tool you can download from the internet by searching Google Search Console.
In this process you have verify your site with help of Meta tags or Server HTML code, where you have to add HTML code on your server to get verify.
How to Fixed Discovered Currently Not Indexed in the Search Console
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Check Meta Robots Tag
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Inspect URL in the Search Console
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Check Robots. txt File
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Check Rendered Page
- Go to Search Console.
- Inspect URL on Inspect section.
- Click on Test live URL for the Indexed page.
- Then click on “View Tested Page” to open new section.
- If this option is not available for your page then page has been not reached to the live test.
- At last click the screenshot tab.
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Check Server Response
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Mismatch URL or 404 Errors
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Due to New Website
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Content Duplication
Make sure that your robots meta tag must be dofollow and index tag will be added to that landing page. If you will find that there is no-index added in the robots meta tag then immediately contact to your web developer or you can fixed it with help of admin login.
Sometimes most of the people forget to check inspect URL in the Google search console that are discovered but not indexed. So before moving forward you must have to inspect your URL to check is that URL or landing page has been indexed or not. If landing page has been indexed then move to next step, if not then click on the right side button “Request Indexing” and you are done with your work.
When you click on request indexing after that you have to wait 2 to 3 mins then you page will index soon.
If above two step goes well then you have to check the robots. txt file that work as disallow and allow. Put URL to test that URL is allowed or disallow. Also, sometimes if you have no idea about the writing the rule of robots . txt then you have to take help from you senior manager or you can find solution from the internet. Sometimes by mistake users added a wrong URL page that cause error for indexing.
If all the above steps are not working in your case then you have to check the rendered page of your site’s landing page URL. This make sure that all elements of your page are good structured and ready to appear for the search engine bot.
In rendered page you can also check the screenshots. If screen shorts are available then your URL has been indexed by the search engine but at a same time if there is no any screenshots are available that means your page is not indexed by the bot.
To check rendered page:
Most of the time users are not aware about this server issue and they are facing website URL or landing page that discovered but currently not indexed that is showing in the search console.
This server issue happened due to the slow server response that is when your server is not responding when web crawler bot are trying to access your website page then on that time your server is not responding properly which cause the indexing issue for your site. So if you are going to buy a server then always try to buy good server that has good response or ping time according to the location.
Sometimes what happened, if your site going to revamp then some URLs might be changed or moved to new location, due to that this error occurs. Due to this 404 errors your content has been discovered but not indexing due to 404 errors. If still your content is discovered and also get indexed then after sometimes your content will disappear from the search engine and your will able to get this error in your search console.
Always check your URLs and sitemap for your website so that you cannot get this types of errors in the upcoming future.
This errors happen mostly with the new website webmaster, if you have published a new website on the internet and submitted to the search console then your website will go to the search engine sandbox to get Idea about your content and authority. Sandbox check your site details and then provide green signal to your site. This process took approx. 1 to 6 months but this is internal you cannot able to check on any tools. So, if your site is new then you have to keep patience and check your search console and Google analytics to check your sits status and the page with keywords ranking.
If you have duplicate content on your site and you don’t have aware about it then this can be another issue for your site’s page that cannot fetch by the Google search console. Google search console always neglect duplicate content, so if you want to get prevent from this error then you have to add canonical URL on the original source of the page so that you cannot get penalize and also you cannot suffer indexing related issue on your site.
There are many tools are available to check duplicate content like copyscape and many others. Also there are many users who want to steal your content for prevent such types of things you have to add DMCA badge on your site to get solve this problem.
Above we have added practical step that had been performed by our team when few website landing pages are getting discovered but not indexing by the search bot and that message is showing in the Google Search Console in coverage and section excluded. So if you are getting same problem with your landing page then you can try the above steps that we have mentioned here in this blog. If you have a WordPress site then you can apply same step to resolve this issue and get indexed your page in the search engine.
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