From found to indexed
Every page goes through the same steps: Google discovers it, crawls it, then decides whether to index it. Pages drop out at each step. Search Console reports this page by page, with statuses such as "Discovered - currently not indexed" and "Crawled - currently not indexed".
Reading thousands of those rows one by one is slow. IndexPedia reads them for you and groups the missing pages by the pattern behind them.
Common patterns
- Thin pages: little unique text beyond the site template
- Near duplicates: many pages that say almost the same thing, such as city or tag pages
- Discovered but never crawled: often too many low-value URLs competing for attention
- Blocked or noindex: pages excluded on purpose or by mistake
- Redirects and errors still listed in the sitemap
Fix the pattern, not the page
When 3,000 pages are missing for the same reason, fixing them one at a time does not work. Each pattern in the report comes with the change that addresses it, such as adding unique content to a template, merging duplicates, or removing pages from the sitemap.
Key terms
- Discovered - currently not indexed
- Google knows the address but has not crawled it yet.
- Crawled - currently not indexed
- Google read the page and chose not to index it, usually because it saw little value.
- Search Console
- Google's free tool for site owners, which IndexPedia connects to with your permission.