Page Indexation (Index Coverage) Report

TL;DR — Lune page Indexation report dans la recherche Google Console (it utilisé to be appelé the Index Coverage report) indique vous qui of votre pages are in Google’s index, qui aren’t, and pourquoi. “Not indexed” sounds scary, but a lot of ceux pages are supposed to be left out. Trouver the raison, decide si it’s en réalité a problem, and seulement fix the ones que matter.

Ce que ce report is

Ouvrir Recherche Google Console, click Indexation → Pages, and you’re looking at the Page Indexation report. Google renamed it from “Index Coverage” back in 2022, but the old nom stuck — so si vous searched pour the “index coverage report” or the “coverage report,” ce is the même chose.

It fait un job: it takes every URL Google déjà knows à propos de on votre site and sorts it into two piles. Que “already knows about” partie matters — it’s pas a complet inventory of every URL que exists on votre site, seulement the ones Google has trouvé so far, and the exemple URLs it listes sous chaque raison are a capped sample, pas a complet export.

• Indexé — Google has ces pages in its index, so ils peut montrer up in résultats de recherche.
• Non indexée — Google knows à propos de ces but isn’t notamment les correct now, and it indique vous the raison pour chaque.

”Not indexed” n’est pas the même as “broken”

Ce is the partie la plupart personnes obtenir incorrect. Ils voir a big “Not indexed” number and panic. But Google itself dit vous devezn’t expect every URL to be indexé, and a sain site has plenty of pages que are intentionally left out:

• Une page que redirections somewhere sinon.
• A duplicate que points to the “real” version with a balise canonical.
• Une page vous deliberately tagged noindex (comme a thank-you page).

Tout of ceux montrer up sous “Not indexed” and tout of les are working exactly as ils devrait. So the premier question is jamais “how do I fix this?” — it’s “fait ce en réalité besoin fixing?”

The two raisons personnes demander à propos de la plupart

Two not-indexed raisons causer the la plupart confusion, and ils sound almost identical:

• “Crawled - currently not indexed” — Google visited lune page and decided pas to index it (yet). La plupart souvent that’s a quality/valeur signal, but treat it as the leading hypothesis to vérifier contre the réel page, pas a guaranteed causer.
• “Discovered - currently not indexed” — Google knows lune page exists but hasn’t même visited it yet. La plupart souvent that’s à propos de capacity, but low perceived importance or thin maillage interne peut regarder the même — vérifier the page avant assuming qui un it is.

Same-sounding étiquettes, généralement différent problems. The Avancé version has the complet table of every raison and Que faire à propos de chaque.

How to en réalité fix something

Quand you’ve fixed the underlying causer of a réel problem, click the Validate fix button on que raison. Google alors re-checks a sample of the affected pages. It peut prendre a couple of weeks, so be patient — and assurez-vous you’ve truly fixed the causer avant vous click, or validation simplement fails. Remarque que a réussi validation simplement signifie the report’s status caught up with reality — it doesn’t guarantee lune page va rank, obtenir trafic, or obtenir cited in AI réponses.

To vérifier un spécifique page in detail, utiliser the Inspection d’URL outil (it indique vous the live status of a unique URL). And si vous seulement care à propos de lune pages in a certain sitemap, vous pouvez filter the report by que sitemap. Vouloir the complet breakdown of tout twelve not-indexed raisons? Switch to the Avancé tab.

TL;DR — Lune page Indexation report (renamed from Index Coverage at Google I/O in May 2022) covers URLs Google déjà knows à propos de — pas a complet site inventory — and splits les into Indexé and Non indexée, alors buckets the not-indexed ones by raison en utilisant a capped sample of exemple URLs per problème, pas a complet export. Reading it bien signifie knowing que la plupart raisons are pages working as intended — Google dit “Don’t expect every URL on votre site to be indexé.” The two reasons worth real attention are “Crawled - currently non indexée” (la plupart souvent a quality/valeur verdict — fix at le site level, pas page-by-page) and “Discovered - currently not indexed” (la plupart souvent a crawl-capacity/importance problem — fix explorer health and internal liens); treat soit étiquette as the leading hypothesis to tester contre the réel pages, pas a certain diagnosis. Utiliser Validate fix après fixing the causer; it samples pages and peut prendre ~two weeks, and passing it confirms the report caught up with reality — it doesn’t guarantee indexation, rankings, trafic, or AI-search visibility. Pair the report with the Inspection d’URL outil and Sitemaps filtering.

Ce que the report is, and the rename

Lune page Indexation report is Recherche Google Console’s réponse to “qui pages peut Google trouver and index on my site, and what’s stopping the rest?” In Google’s propre words, it lets vous “Voir qui pages Google peut trouver and index on votre site, and apprendre à propos de quelconque indexation problems encountered.”

Google previewed the renamed “Pages” / “Page indexing” report at Google I/O in May 2022, retiring the old “Index Coverage” nom. The données itself had been overhauled a année précédent: on January 11, 2021 Google shipped a définir of Index Coverage données improvements, announced as “significant improvements to ce report so you’re meilleur informed on problèmes que pourrait prevent Google from exploration and indexation votre pages.” As of ce writing, Google’s UI and Aider docs utiliser seulement “Page indexing” — I encore appel out “Index Coverage” parce que a grand share of personnes search que legacy nom, pas parce que the two noms are encore interchangeable in Google’s propre documentation.

Indexé vs Non indexée is descriptive, pas a scorecard

Avant looking at quelconque totals: the report seulement covers URLs Google déjà knows à propos de in the property — it’s pas a guaranteed inventory of every URL on votre site — and the exemple URLs listed sous chaque raison are a capped sample (up to 1 000 pour the Indexé liste, per current Aider text), pas a complet export. Garder que scope in mind whenever vous lire a count.

The report sorts every connu URL into Indexé (eligible to apparaître in Search) and Non indexée (everything Google is holding back, grouped by raison). The mistake I voir constantly is treating que “Not indexed” count as a problem to drive to zero. It isn’t. Google is explicit: “Don’t expect every URL on votre site to be indexé.” A sain site has a grand pile of intentionally not-indexed URLs — canonicalized duplicates, redirections, deliberately noindexed utility pages, gated content. Nombreux of the “errors” in ce report are pages working exactly as designed.

So avant fixing anything, demander qui bucket a raison falls into: working as intended, a directive vous définir, or an réel problem.

Every “Not indexed” raison — Ce que cela signifie and Que faire

La plupart competing articles seulement cover the two “currently not indexed” raisons. Here’s tout twelve, with Google’s verbatim definitions, in the Cheat Sheets tab as a “reason → meaning → fix” table. La version courte, grouped by bucket:

Working as intended (usually aucun action):

• Alternate page with proper balise canonical — “Ce page correctement points to the canonical page, qui is indexé, so là n’est pashing vous devez do.”
• Page avec redirection — l’URL itself won’t be indexé; the redirection target pourrait or pourrait pas be. Vérifier the target is correct, sinon leave it.
• Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag — Google trouvé a noindex directive and obeyed it. Seulement “fix” ce si lune page was meant to be indexé. (The report UI montre “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag”; older Aider text phrased it “URL marked ‘noindex’” — match whichever vous voir.)
• Blocked due to unauthorized requête (401) — attendu pour genuinely gated content; a problem seulement si une page publique got locked behind auth.

Canonicalization (decide si Google chose correct):

• Duplicate sans user-selected canonical — Google picked un autre page as canonical and won’t serve ce un. Définir an explicit canonical / consolidate.
• Duplicate, Google chose différent canonical que utilisateur — votre canonical signal was overridden. Ce is courant and pas a mistake on votre partie; strengthen signals (canonical, lien internes, content) toward votre preferred URL.

Réel problems (fix si lune page devrait exist):

• Introuvable (404) — “404 réponses ne sont pas necessarily a problem, si lune page has been supprimé.” Fix seulement si l’URL devrait resolve.
• Soft 404 — lune page renvoie a “not found” message but a 200 code d’état. Retourner a réel 404/410, or ajouter genuine content.
• Blocked by robots.txt — unblock si it devrait be crawled. Remember robots.txt blocks exploration, pas indexation.
• Server error (5xx) — votre serveur renvoyé a 500-level error. Investigate hosting; souvent transient or load-related.

The two que besoin leur propre section — Crawled - currently non indexée and Découvert - currently non indexée — ci-dessous.

Crawled vs Découvert — the distinction to nail

Ces two étiquettes regarder comme twins and Google’s propre raison documentation indique vous to examiner the spécifique raison and lune page’s context plutôt que assume un fixed causer — so treat ce que follows as the la plupart probable explanation to tester contre votre réel pages, pas a universal diagnosis que s’applique to every URL carrying the étiquette.

“Discovered - currently not indexed” is la plupart souvent a capacity problem. Google knows l’URL exists but hasn’t crawled it yet. Google’s definition: the page “was trouvé by Google, but pas crawled yet. Typically, Google wanted to explorer l’URL but ce was attendu to overload le site.” In the Ahrefs guide on “Découvert - currently non indexée” (qui I reviewed), we put it plainly: “‘Découvert - currently non indexée’ signifie Google knows à propos de l’URL but hasn’t yet crawled or indexé it.” The commonly cited drivers are explorer budget and perceived importance — “Si votre crawlable URLs exceed votre explorer budget, vous may voir the ‘Découvert - currently non indexée’ warning,” and “Google souvent sees URLs sans quelconque or nombreux lien internes as unimportant and may pas index les.” Ceux are hypotheses to vérifier, pas a checklist que s’applique identically to every URL: regarder at the spécifique page’s lien internes, explorer logs, and server réponse avant picking a fix. Reduce explorer waste, speed up le site, and ajouter lien internes (and, pour lune pages que truly matter, requête indexation and construire liens) une fois you’ve confirmed qui of ceux is en réalité happening.

“Crawled - currently not indexed” is la plupart souvent a quality/valeur verdict. Google’s definition: lune page “was crawled by Google but non indexée. It may or may pas be indexé in the future.” In other words — Google saw it and passed. In the Ahrefs guide on “Crawled - currently non indexée”: “Google has successfully visited votre page but has choisi pas to inclure it in its search index,” and it “typically points to some kind of quality problème.” That’s a strong pattern, pas a certainty pour every affected URL — some pages carry the étiquette pour raisons closer to duplication or timing que quality. The unique la plupart utile reframe ici comes from John Mueller: ce is rarely à propos de un page. As he put it, “vous pouvez’t force pages to be indexé — it’s normal que we don’t index tout pages on tout websites. It’s pas an problème with ‘que page’, it’s plus site-wide. Creating a bon site structure and making certain le site is of the highest quality possible is essentially the direction.” So commencer by inspecting a sample of the réel affected pages, alors fonctionner at the site level: raise overall quality, consolidate thin pages, améliorer structure — pas patch un URL and déplacer on.

The clean mental split, as a starting hypothesis plutôt que a fixed rule: Découvert = crawl-budget/capacity (Google hasn’t gotten to it). Crawled = quality/valeur (Google got to it and declined). Confirmer contre votre propre exemples avant committing to a fix.

A réel audit pattern

Quand vous voir “Crawled - currently not indexed” at scale, treat it as a site-wide audit, pas une page-by-page chase. I’ve fait ce on the Ahrefs blog — thousands of crawled pages, working via qui low-value or outdated ones to prune, consolidate, or améliorer plutôt que trying to force every URL into the index. Que pruning mindset is the practical expression of Mueller’s “it’s more site-wide” point: quand a chunk of votre site reads as low valeur, the lever is le site, pas the individual URL.

Comment utiliser Validate fix

Quand a raison represents a genuine problem and you’ve fixed the underlying causer, click Validate fix on que problème. The mechanics matter:

• It samples, pas exhaustively. “Quand vous click Validate Fix, Search Console immédiatement checks a few pages.”
• It peut surface unrelated problèmes mid-run. “Si validation trouve autre unrelated problèmes, ces problèmes are counted contre que autre problème type and validation continues.”
• It’s slow. “Validation typically takes up to à propos de two weeks, but in some cas peut prendre beaucoup plus long.”
• The state machine runs Commencé → Réussi / Failed / Looking bon.

The cardinal rule: fix the underlying causer premier. Clicking Validate avant you’ve en réalité fixed anything simplement burns two weeks ending in “Failed.”

Un plus chose to be clair on: a réussi validation, a favorable report status, a successful Inspection d’URL, or a submitted sitemap — none of ces guarantee indexation, rankings, trafic, or AI-search visibility/citation. Ils seulement confirmer que the spécifique signal ils vérifier (a directive, a status, a canonical) now matches ce que vous intended. Indexation is necessary pour une page to compete in Search; it’s jamais sufficient on its propre.

The sampling caveat, and the sibling reports

Un limitation to internalize: the report montre seulement a capped sample of exemple URLs per problème, pas the complet liste. The counts are complet, but the exemple URLs aren’t — so don’t assume the dozen URLs affiché are the seulement ones affected.

That’s exactly pourquoi vous pair ce report with two siblings. The Inspection d’URL outil is how vous vérifier the live index state of a unique URL — the report donne vous the pattern, Inspection d’URL confirms un page (and is où vous requête indexation or a re-crawl). And vous pouvez filter the report by a spécifique sitemap from le sitemaps report to scope it to simplement l’URLs vous en réalité care à propos de, qui cuts via the noise on grand sites. The report is the diagnosis couche of the broader indexation picture; ces two narrow it bas.

A few myths worth killing

• “100% indexed is the goal.” Aucun — “Don’t expect every URL on votre site to be indexé.”
• “Crawled - currently not indexed is a penalty or bug.” Aucun — it’s a valeur judgment; fix site-wide quality.
• “robots.txt disallow and noindex do the same thing.” Aucun — robots.txt blocks exploration; a blocked page peut encore be indexé URL-only. To supprimer une page, autoriser exploration and utiliser noindex.
• “Repeatedly clicking Request indexing forces indexing.” It can’t force indexation of low-value or duplicate pages.
• “A 404 in the report is always bad.” 404s pour supprimé pages are fine and attendu.

AI summary

A condensed prendre on the Avancé version:

• The report (Recherche Google Console → Indexation → Pages) covers URLs Google déjà knows à propos de — pas a complet site inventory — and montre qui are indexé, qui aren’t, and pourquoi. It was renamed from “Index Coverage” to “Page indexation” at Google I/O, May 2022; Google’s current docs utiliser seulement the nouveau nom, but personnes encore search the legacy un.
• It splits everything into Indexé vs Non indexée, alors groupes not-indexed URLs by raison en utilisant a capped sample of exemple URLs, pas a complet export. The Non indexée count is pas a problem to zero out — Google: “Don’t expect every URL on votre site to be indexé.”
• Nombreux raisons are working as intended: alternate page with proper canonical, page avec redirection, intentional noindex, gated 401.
• The two confusing raisons usually point opposite directions, but treat chaque as a hypothesis, pas a verdict. Découvert - currently non indexée = la plupart souvent crawl-budget/capacity (Google hasn’t crawled it yet). Crawled - currently pas indexé = la plupart souvent quality/valeur (Google crawled it and declined). Mueller: “it’s more site-wide” — fix site quality, pas un page — but confirmer contre the réel affected pages premier.
• Validate fix samples pages, peut surface autre problèmes mid-run, and takes ~two weeks. Fix the causer premier. Passing it doesn’t guarantee indexation, rankings, trafic, or AI-search visibility — it seulement confirms the vérifié signal now matches votre intent.
• The report seulement montre a capped sample of exemple URLs per problème. Pair it with the Inspection d’URL outil (single-URL live state) and Sitemaps filtering (scope to URLs vous care à propos de).

Documentation officielle

Primary-source documentation from Google.

Google

• Page indexation report — the canonical Aider doc: every not-indexed raison definition, the Validate fix flow, the “don’t expect every URL” guidance, and the Inspection d’URL + Sitemaps cross-references.
• Index Coverage Données Improvements (Jan 11, 2021) — the pre-rename données overhaul que shaped today’s report.
• Inspection d’URL outil — vérifier the live index state of a unique URL and requête indexation.
• Sitemaps report — submit sitemaps and filter lune page Indexation report by un of les.

Quotes from the source

On-the-record statements from Google. Chaque lien jumps to the quoted passage on the source page où the substring is reachable.

Recherche Google Console Aider — ce que the report is and how to lire it

• “See which pages Google can find and index on your site, and learn about any indexing problems encountered.” — Recherche Google Console Aider. Jump to quote
• “Don’t expect every URL on your site to be indexed.” — Recherche Google Console Aider. Jump to quote

Recherche Google Console Aider — the two “currently not indexed” raisons

• “The page was crawled by Google but not indexed. It may or may not be indexed in the future.” (Crawled - currently non indexée) — Recherche Google Console Aider.
• “The page was found by Google, but not crawled yet. Typically, Google wanted to crawl the URL but this was expected to overload the site.” (Découvert - currently non indexée) — Recherche Google Console Aider.

Recherche Google Console Aider — Validate fix

• “When you click Validate Fix, Search Console immediately checks a few pages… If validation finds other unrelated issues, these issues are counted against that other issue type and validation continues.” — Recherche Google Console Aider.
• “Validation typically takes up to about two weeks, but in some cases can take much longer.” — Recherche Google Console Aider.

Recherche Google Central Blog — the 2021 données overhaul

• “Based on the feedback we got from the community, today we are rolling out significant improvements to this report so you’re better informed on issues that might prevent Google from crawling and indexing your pages.” — Recherche Google Central Blog, “Index Coverage Data Improvements,” Jan 11, 2021. Lire the post

John Mueller, Google — “Crawled - currently not indexed” is site-wide

• “you can’t force pages to be indexed — it’s normal that we don’t index all pages on all websites. It’s not an issue with ‘that page’, it’s more site-wide. Creating a good site structure and making sure the site is of the highest quality possible is essentially the direction.” — John Mueller, Search Advocate, Google.

Every “Not indexed” raison — raison → meaning → fix

Google’s verbatim definitions, the bucket chaque falls into, and ce que to en réalité do.

Crawled vs Découvert, in un line chaque (starting hypothesis — confirmer contre votre propre exemples)

• Crawled - currently non indexée = Google saw it and declined → la plupart souvent quality/valeur (fix site-wide).
• Découvert - currently non indexée = Google hasn’t visited it yet → la plupart souvent crawl-budget/capacity (fix explorer health + importance).

Étiquette drift: the report UI montre “Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag”; older Aider text said “URL marked ‘noindex’.” Même chose.

Reading lune page Indexation report — checklist

A réussir to fonctionner via avant vous “fix” anything:

• Ouvrir Indexation → Pages dans la recherche Google Console.
• Don’t panic at the “Not indexed” total — it’s descriptive, pas a scorecard.
• Pour chaque raison, decide its bucket premier: working as intended, a directive vous définir, or an réel problem.
• Confirmer the working-as-intended ones (alternate canonical, page with redirection, intentional noindex, gated 401) and leave les alone.
• Pour canonicalization raisons, vérifier si Google chose l’URL vous wanted; strengthen signals seulement si it didn’t.
• Triage “Crawled - currently not indexed” as a site-wide quality problème, pas page-by-page.
• Triage “Discovered - currently not indexed” as a crawl-capacity / importance problème (explorer health + lien internes).
• Remember the report montre seulement a sample of exemple URLs — utiliser l’URL Inspection outil to confirmer quelconque unique page’s live state.
• Filter the report by a spécifique sitemap to scope it to URLs vous care à propos de.
• Fix the underlying causer avant clicking Validate fix — alors expect ~two weeks.

The mental models

1. Indexé vs Non indexée is descriptive, pas a target. The Non indexée count is pas a number to drive to zero. Google dit pas to expect every URL to be indexé. Lire the report to comprendre votre site, pas to score it.

2. Sort every raison into un of three buckets.

• Working as intended — alternate canonical, page avec redirection, intentional noindex, gated 401. Aucun action.
• A directive vous définir — robots.txt block, noindex. Seulement “fix” si it was a mistake.
• An réel problem — soft 404, 5xx, unintended 404, the two “currently pas indexé” raisons. Ces earn votre attention.

3. Crawled ≠ Découvert — but treat les deux as hypotheses, pas verdicts. Crawled - currently non indexée = Google visited and declined → la plupart souvent quality/valeur (fix site-wide, per Mueller’s “it’s more site-wide”). Découvert - currently non indexée = Google hasn’t visited yet → la plupart souvent crawl-budget/capacity (fix explorer health and importance signals). Confirmer contre the réel affected pages avant committing to a fix; almost everything sinon follows une fois you’ve got the correct diagnosis.

4. Diagnose, alors confirmer, alors scope. The report = the pattern (qui raisons, roughly how nombreux). The Inspection d’URL outil = the live state of un URL. Le sitemaps filter = scope to URLs vous en réalité care à propos de. Utiliser tout three; don’t raison from the sample alone.

5. Causer premier, Validate second. Validate fix samples pages and takes ~two weeks. Clicking it avant you’ve fixed the root causer simplement delays a “Failed.”

Ce que devrait vous do with a “Not indexed” URL?

Page Indexation mistakes que créer busywork

Optimizing pour 100% indexé

Pourquoi it’s incorrect: redirections, duplicate alternates, deleted URLs, gated pages, and intentional noindex pages peut tout belong outside the index. Do à la place: define the définir of URLs que devrait be canonical and indexable, alors mesurer coverage of que définir.

Treating crawled and découvert as the même problem

Pourquoi it’s incorrect: “Discovered — currently not indexed” signifie Google has pas crawled l’URL; “Crawled — currently not indexed” signifie it récupéré l’URL and did pas select it. Do à la place: investigate explorer capacity and importance pour découvert URLs, alors quality, valeur, and duplication pour crawled URLs.

Blocking a noindexed URL in robots.txt

Pourquoi it’s incorrect: robots.txt peut prevent Google from exploration lune page and seeing the noindex directive. Do à la place: autoriser exploration pendant que Google processes noindex, or utiliser the correct removal/status-code strategy pour the situation.

Repeatedly requesting indexation

Pourquoi it’s incorrect: la requête is a recrawl hint, pas a command to inclure une page. Repeated clicks ne faites pas repair weak valeur, conflicting canonicals, or blocked accès. Do à la place: fix the underlying raison, vérifier the live result, alors submit une fois.

Fixing every 404 in the report

Pourquoi it’s incorrect: a réel 404 or 410 is the correct réponse pour a permanently supprimé URL with aucun replacement. Do à la place: restore URLs que devrait exist, redirection seulement to a genuinely equivalent replacement, and leave intentional removals alone.

Prove an indexation fix took effect

Confirmer the live page is eligible

Tester to run — Utiliser Inspection d’URL’s live tester après modification code d’états, directives, accès, rendering, or canonicals. Attendu result — lune page is fetchable, the intended canonical/directives are visible, and aucun unintended block or server error apparaît. Échec interpretation — the deployed page encore differs from the intended configuration. Monitoring window — Immediate pour the live tester. Rollback trigger — Revert si the modifier blocks, noindexes, redirections, or canonicalizes intended pages incorrectly.

Confirmer Google processed the fix

Tester to run — Commencer Validate fix pour the affected problème and monitor sampled URLs, pendant que spot-checking clé URLs with Inspection d’URL. Attendu result — sample URLs réussir and the affected problème count trends bas as Google recrawls. Échec interpretation — the fix is incomplete à travers templates or Google has pas processed suffisant URLs yet. Monitoring window — Multiple crawls/report refreshes; indexation is pas an immediate signal. Rollback trigger — Arrêter the rollout si a growing définir of previously indexé, intended URLs moves into the problème.

Reconcile the intended sitemap cohort

Tester to run — Filter Page Indexation by the submitted sitemap and comparer its intended URLs with le sitemap report, explorer données, and index checks. Attendu result — canonical indexable sitemap URLs are indexé or moving via the attendu processing state, pendant que exclusions are explainable. Échec interpretation — the sitemap contient redirections, non-canonicals, errors, or low-value URLs, or important URLs lack explorer/index signals. Monitoring window — Examiner après recrawl and on the suivant regular report cycle. Rollback trigger — Revert a sitemap generation modifier que removes or replaces the intended URL canonique définir.

Outils pour working the report

• Recherche Google Console — Page Indexation report — Indexation → Pages; the report ce whole article is à propos de.
• Inspection d’URL outil (GSC) — vérifier the live explorer/render/index state of a unique URL, and requête indexation or a re-crawl. The report indique vous the pattern; ce confirms un page.
• Sitemaps report (GSC) — submit sitemaps, alors filter lune page Indexation report by a spécifique sitemap to scope it to l’URLs vous care à propos de.
• Robots d’exploration / site audits — Ahrefs Site Audit and Screaming Frog SEO Spider surface duplicates, chaîne de redirectionss, soft 404s, and blocked URLs so vous pouvez cross-reference ce que the report flags.
• Ahrefs Webmaster Outils — free explorer + audit pour sites vous vérifier.

Ressources utiles

My connexe writing (Ahrefs)

• Comment corriger “Discovered - currently not indexed” — the crawl-budget/importance raison, in depth (I’m a reviewer on ce un).
• Ce que “Crawled - Currently Not Indexed” Signifie dans la recherche Google Console — the quality/valeur raison and how it differs from Découvert.
• Indexé, though blocked by robots.txt — pourquoi a robots.txt block doesn’t supprimer une page from the index.
• The Beginner’s Guide to SEO technique — où indexation fits in the bigger picture.

From autour the industry

• Page indexation report — Google’s propre Aider doc is the principal référence; garder it ouvrir pendant que vous lire votre report.
• Index Coverage Données Improvements (Jan 11, 2021) — Recherche Google Central Blog post announcing the 2021 données overhaul que shaped today’s report.
• Google Rend 4 Changements to Index Coverage Report — Moteur de recherche Journal’s coverage of the January 2021 improvements, with the Google rollout quote and context.
• Crawled Currently Non indexée Possibly A Sign Of A Google Quality Problème — Moteur de recherche Roundtable’s report on John Mueller’s “it’s more site-wide” framing pour ce status.
• Recherche Google Console coverage to Pages reports rename — Moteur de recherche Roundtable’s coverage of the Index Coverage → Page Indexation rename.
• Moteur de recherche Journal — SEO technique — broader SEO technique coverage notamment indexation topics and GSC updates.
• r/TechSEO — the community pour explorer/index debugging.

Videos

• Recherche Google Central (YouTube) — the How Recherche Google Fonctionne series and Search Console explainers from the Search Relations team, notamment indexation troubleshooting. Channel

The standing KPI pour indexation health

The raw “Indexed” count in the report is a vanity number on its propre — a site peut have thousands of indexé URLs and encore have the incorrect ones indexé. The KPI que en réalité tracks health is the ratio of pages vous vouloir indexé to pages que are.

Intended-indexable coverage ratio

• Metric — Indexé pages ÷ pages vous intend to be indexable — i.e. of l’URLs que devrait rank (canonical, in votre sitemap, valuable), how nombreux are en réalité dans l’index.
• Ce que it indique vous — Si votre pages importantes are reachable and accepted by Google. A ratio que drifts bas — or a “Not indexed” bucket que fills with URLs vous did vouloir — is an early warning que beats watching the total count.
• How to pull it — GSC Page Indexation report (Indexé vs. Non indexée, broken out by raison); spot-check individual URLs with the Google Index Checker; and reconcile crawled vs. indexé vs. sitemapped URLs with the Indexation Reconciler to voir qui side the gap is on.
• Benchmark / realistic range — Situational — it dépend entirely on how nombreux low-value URLs votre CMS generates, so there’s aucun honest universal target. The correct bar: lune pages que devrait be indexé are, and the “Not indexed” bucket is deliberate (parameters, filters, thin variants) plutôt que accidental. Establish votre propre intended-indexable count as the baseline.
• Cadence — Weekly during a migration or a grand content release (quand the ratio moves fast), sinon monthly.

Testez vos connaissances: lune page Indexation report

Five rapide questions on diagnosing indexé and excluded URLs. Pick an réponse pour chaque, alors vérifier.

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