Local search. Reviewed October 29, 2026
Indexing
Also called: Indexed, Crawled, currently not indexed
Indexing is Google adding a page to its database so it can appear in search results, and a page that has been crawled but not indexed cannot rank for anything.
In practice
The Pages report in Search Console shows which pages are in and which are out and why. Discovered, currently not indexed usually means the page is thin or has no internal links pointing at it. Crawled, currently not indexed usually means Google read it and did not think it added anything.
The fix is almost always more substance on the page and more links to it from pages that are already indexed, not resubmitting the sitemap.
Related terms
- XML sitemapAn XML sitemap is a file, usually at /sitemap.xml, that lists every page a site wants search engines to crawl along with the date each one last changed.
- Google Search ConsoleGoogle Search Console is Google's free report of how a site performs in search: which queries show it, how many clicks and impressions it earns, which pages are indexed and what errors Google found.
- Canonical URLA canonical URL is the tag that tells Google which version of a page is the original when the same content can be reached at more than one address.
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