Why are my indexed pages dropping?
Sometimes, pages just drop off the index because of age or lack of visitors. This is normal. Other times, however, Google penalizes pages, i.e., deindexes them because of spam or unnatural backlinks. When a page is removed from Google’s index, it will no longer be returned in search results.
What does it mean when a page is indexed?
A page is indexed by Google if it has been visited by the Google crawler (“Googlebot”), analyzed for content and meaning, and stored in the Google index. Indexed pages can be shown in Google Search results (if they follow Google’s webmaster guidelines).
What does a site being indexed mean?
Website indexation is the process by which a search engine adds web content to its index. This is done by “crawling” webpages for keywords, metadata, and related signals that tell search engines if and where to rank content. Indexed websites should have a navigable, findable, and clearly understood content strategy.
What’s the difference between crawled not indexed and not indexed?
Since the web is virtually infinite and there is a prioritization, it may never actually get there. Crawled not currently indexed means that the page was downloaded onto Google servers but its contents have not been inserted into the index.
What does it mean when your indexed pages go down?
Remember, your pages can’t rank when search engines can’t see, crawl, or index them. Most of the time, a decrease in indexed pages could mean a bad thing, but a fix to duplicate content, thin content, or low-quality content might also result in a decreased number of indexed pages, which is a good thing.
How does Google crawl and index a website?
Perform a crawl of your site and use a custom extraction tool to scrape data from your product pages. Google often crawls the destination URLs of redirected pages but isn’t including them in the index; but it may index a redirecting URL.
Why is Google crawling but not indexed in SERP?
Often, we’ll see that Google is crawling the destination URL but not including it in the index. However, upon looking at the SERP, we find that Google is indexing a redirecting URL. Since the redirecting URL is the one indexed, the destination URL is thrown into the “Crawled — currently not indexed” report.