I have had a number of site owners reach out to ask for help with indexing issues lately. In most cases, I am finding that Google has classified its pages as “crawled-not currently indexed” in the page indexing report in Google Search Console.
In almost every case, I’ve examined these pages have quality issues. They are usually “commodity content” – essentially rehashing what many others have already written on a topic without offering anything new or more helpful than what currently exists online.
In this article, I’ll share how I look at the crawled-currently not indexed report in GSC. I’ll give you a tool to help you find the pages in this report that you should analyze further. And I’ll give you some tips for improving so you can possibly recover. I must give fair warning, though. For most sites, if you have a large number of pages you want indexed, but they are stuck in crawled-currently not indexed, recovery will be difficult.
What Google Said About Crawled-Currently Not Indexed At The Google Search Central Event In Toronto
I attended the Google Search Central event in April of 2026. The organizers asked us not to attribute quotes directly to any Googler, but they did give us permission to share what was said.
One presenter shared about how Search works. He said that when Google crawls a page it essentially means they download it. Then, “If we think it’s useful we might put it in a database,” or in other words, in Google’s index.
Then he talked about what kinds of things Google wants to put in the index. He said that AI has made the threshold for creating things lower. If anyone can create content on anything, then the type of content Google wants to add to their index is content that offers two things: personal experience, and knowledge no one else has.
He said that if Google has crawled your page and has decided not to index it, there could be two reasons:
1. There Could Be A Technical Issue
I have found this to be rare. However, just last week I reviewed a site that had undergone a migration and all of their pages were stuck in crawled-currently not indexed. Note: This is not the same as “Discovered-not currently indexed” which means that Google is aware of the pages, but has not yet crawled them.
My first step was to analyze whether Google could see the content on pages. I used the page inspection tool in GSC by clicking the magnifying glass next to the url in the crawled-currently not indexed list and clicked, “Test Live URL” Surprisingly, when I viewed the live tested page, all it showed was a heading, a few boilerplate words and no content whatsoever.
In this case, the site owner did indeed have a technical issue. Their robots.txt had this line, Disallow: /*?*. The idea was to block crawling of urls with parameters like ?replytocom or ?utm_source. But, their new theme relied on these parameters for their CSS files and javascript so they were essentially blocking Google…
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