How to Fix Google Crawled -Currently Not Indexed Error?

After the recent Google Core Update, CoreNetworkZ lost a small portion of its daily organic traffic.

As Google says, Core Update is not about penalizing a website but a different way to show search results to the users.

That means Google's algorithm update changes the ranking of different web pages (SERP) for a keyword.

However, another problem worried me. I saw a reduction in the number of URLs indexed by Google.

That is a big problem, and I decided to investigate the reason.

You can access Google Search Console by visiting this link.

As a responsible webmaster, I logged into Google Search Console.

I logged into Google Search Console to investigate what happened to the missing pages of CoreNetworkZ in Google Search Results.

To learn more, have a look at the screenshot below.

Look at the section, Crawled - currently not indexed.

To my surprise, I saw a lot of old posts on my blog listed under this category.

This tutorial explains how to solve the problem of Google Crawled - Currently not indexed.

As a practical guide, I am taking one of the pages not indexed by Google from the list of Crawled - currently not indexed and showing you how to reindex it in Google search.

According to Google support Crawled but Currently not Indexed error means Google spiders crawled the page. However, Google has not indexed it yet.

According to the answer, Google may or may not index the page in the future.

We cannot depend on this vague reply. We want to persuade Google to index the pages under the category -Crawled but not indexed yet.

First, we need to understand what blocks Google from indexing the page.

Though Google mentions they have crawled the page already, we must inspect the URL for any technical issues that prevent spiders.

Click the page URL listed under Page Indexing > Crawled - Not Indexed.

Click the INSPECT URL.

It will start retrieving data from the Google search index.

Search Console shows the result. The URL is not on Google.

The page indexing status shows Page is not indexed - Crawled - currently not indexed.

You can see a tool TEST LIVE URL on the top of the window. Click that to continue our test.

The result is positive. Google finds no technical issues that prevent this blog post from getting indexed.

What should we do now? We now understand Google decided not to index this page due to any technical errors.

So, Why did Google put this post under the category Crawled but currently not indexed?

Google may remove web pages from its search index for one of the reasons below.

1. Outdated Content.
   
   
2. Thin Content.
   
   
3. The post link is absent in the sitemap.xml file.
   
   
4. Orphan Page.

Since that post has no technical issues, I did the following steps.

1. Edit The Post

   Google does not like obsolete content in its search results.

   The webmaster has to provide unique fresh content.

   So, I edited that old post and made unique fresh content.

   Then I requested Google to reindex this page using the tool REQUEST INDEXING.

   
   
   

2. Created Internal Links Pointing to The Post

   Google may drop orphan pages from its Search Index.

   Orphan pages are those that do not have any links pointing to them.

   I created a few internal links to this post from my other pages.

   
   

3. Made Sure the Page URL is in Sitemap.xml.

   I ensured that the blog post URL is in the sitemap.xml file.

Yes, it did fix the "crawled but currently not indexed" problem.

It took two days for this page to reappear in Google Search results.

So, what did I learn from this experiment?

Google is removing low-quality pages from its search index.

Search Engines may label high-quality content too as spam.

So, we must tell Google and Bing that the website content is helpful for their users.