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Google indexing issues, explained

Search Console labels a URL. It does not fix it. Each page below maps one coverage status to the checks we already run on tracked URLs — HTTP status, canonical, noindex, robots.txt, inlinks — and the next action that follows. We submit and measure. Nobody can guarantee Google indexing.

Duplicate without user-selected canonical

Google found copies and picked a canonical because you did not. How to declare one, and how to check it against the URL you submitted.

Alternate page with proper canonical tag

You pointed the canonical elsewhere and Google agreed. Often correct — only a problem if you wanted this URL indexed.

Crawled — currently not indexed

Google fetched the page and chose not to store it. Recrawl is not the same as index. Quality, duplicates, and the 1h→14d inspect schedule.

Discovered — currently not indexed

Google knows the URL exists and has not fetched it. Sitemap, zero inlinks, and robots — not a crawled-but-excluded problem.

Soft 404

The URL looks gone to Google even when it returns HTTP 200. True 404/410 vs empty, noindex, or canonical-to-other pages.

Excluded by noindex tag

Meta robots vs X-Robots-Tag. Our diagnose fetch already flags the meta; the header is a separate check.

Blocked by robots.txt

Googlebot groups vs the * group, and why an empty Disallow allows crawling. Not a robots.txt tester — a fix for a GSC status.

Related guides: How to index a website on Google · Submit a URL · Get Google to recrawl

Straight answers

Can you guarantee Google will index a URL after I fix this?

No. We submit and measure. Nobody can guarantee Google indexing. A Search Console status tells you why a URL is excluded today; fixing the cause makes indexing possible, not certain.

Do I need a checker on this page?

No. Each status page is a diagnosis table — cause, what to check on the live URL, and the fix. A paste-a-URL tool is a later template, not a requirement for these pages to be useful.

Where do these checks come from?

The same evidence our diagnose worker already collects per tracked URL: HTTP status, rel=canonical vs the submitted address, meta robots noindex, robots.txt Disallow, and inlink count among pages we crawl.

Submit the URL. Then watch the verdict change.

We re-inspect on a decaying schedule and record Google's coverage state — not a guess from a ping. 25 URLs free, no card.

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