What does discovered currently not indexed mean? How to fix this?

 'Discovered, currently not indexed' means that Googlebot has found the URL of your page, but hasn't crawled or doesn't want to crawl or can't crawl and it is not indexed yet.

The solution is hidden in discovered, currently not indexed. Discovered means that your page has been found by Googlebot, but it is not crawled. Currently, not indexed means not yet indexed or does not want to be indexed.

When in crawled, currently a not indexed issue, the page has been crawled but not indexed yet. Also, read this article related to this issue.

If the page has indexing problems, there are many reasons why Googlebot may not crawl a page after it is detected. for example

• Website is out of crawl budget.
• Googlebot is having trouble crawling.

What is the crawl budget?

Also, the page is not crawled due to the crawl budget. This problem often appears on large websites. Websites that have more than ten thousand pages.

Google sets a crawling limit for each website, which is called a crawl budget. Googlebot crawls as many pages as possible within the crawl budget and leaves the rest of the pages without crawling.

If your page isn't crawled by Googlebot, it won't index either. So you have to keep your website crawl within budget. How to bring the website to the crawl budget?

• Do not index old pages.
• Keep tag, category, search pages out of the crawl.
• Use the no-index tag in unused pages.

If your website has less than ten thousand pages and your website crawl is within budget yet your page is not crawled then you have to think about it.

Having trouble crawling

There is another important reason why the page is not crawled. Googlebot is unable to crawl your site. Your site is not rendering properly. Pay attention to the loading of the page, focus on opening the page smoothly.

Secondly, pages are usually not crawled due to poor page content. Google thinks your page is useless. But if you think your page is not useless, then tell Google the importance of the page.

Google does not index all pages of a website. Although Google crawls all pages, Google does not guarantee that it will index all pages. In such a situation, if you want to index your page, then you have to write useful content and Google will have to understand the importance of the page.

How to explain the importance of a page to Google?

• Provide new information on the page.
• Write linkable content.
• Link the page to another website.
• Keep the sentences in the content short and easy to understand.
• Make the page usable for all devices.

Every day new information is added to the Internet. Googlebot collects and indexes all that information and adds it to its inventory. But now Google doesn't want to index the pages they already have.

So you have to write your content keeping this in mind. If your content provides new information, the chances of pages getting indexed increase.

Content writing is an exercise that is not possible in a day or a week. You have to make your content linkable gradually. Linkable content simply means writing such content so that this page can be linked to related content. If you do this then the structure of your page will be strong and there will be no problem in indexing.

Getting your page indexed quickly is a challenge for any new website. For this, you have to link your page to another website. To do this, Google recommends that your website may be delayed by Googlebot, so if a link to your site is found on another website, Google will know that there is a new update on your site. Due to which the page is likely to be indexed.

It has always been the purpose of Google to provide better content to users. That's why you have to improve the content, like writing the sentences written in the content in short and easy words. Google wants all types of users to be able to read and understand your content. If you do this, your page may get indexed quickly.

It is now mandatory for the website to be mobile-friendly. You need to make your page usable for all devices. So check your page on a mobile-friendly test site. if there is a problem fix it.

How to request a page for indexing?

You must check your page beforehand. So that there is no problem in having the page index. But how can you check your page? To check the page, you have to take the help of Google Search Console Tools.

• Login to Google search console.
• Click on URL Inspection Tool
• Enter the URL of the page in the search bar and press Enter.
• If the URL is not on Google, then you can click on Live URL Test.

How to fix the 'Discovered, currently not indexed' issue?

First of all, check whether your page is crawlable or not? If your page is not crawled then the index will not happen. But there is no guarantee that Google will index every crawled page.

If your page isn't indexing and displays 'Discovered, currently not indexed', here's how you can fix it. Below are some tips that you can follow to get your pages indexed.

• Link this page to related pages that have been indexed.
• Provide a link to the relevant page as anchor text in the relevant paragraph.
• Link the page to other websites through external links.
• Sometimes a mistake is made to add the CMS page to the sitemap. So you need to check if the link to your page has been added to the sitemap? Its solution is simple. Add the page to the sitemap.

Conclusion

Lastly, to fix the discovered-not currently indexed issue, you need to make the website crawlable while providing unique and high-quality content. If your page is not useful to the users, then Google will not index the page and if it is not indexed then the website will not even rank. So the most important thing is to pay attention to the content of your page.