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Why are pages excluded in Google Search Console?
Reasons for exclusion mean that the page is explicitly blocked from indexing (for example, a robots. txt rule on your site, or a noindex tag on the page). Duplicate pages are also excluded (Google only indexes one version of a set of duplicate pages).
Why the number of pages indexed is important?
For attaining a rank on the SERPs, getting more number of indexed web pages is important as well as essential. Web pages not getting indexed by Google can be a sign that either Google is not liking your page or may not be able to crawl it with ease.
What to do if Google is not indexing your website?
Turn off safe search, which might be filtering your results. For a missing page: Search Google for the full URL of your page. For a site: It is possible that not every page on the site is indexed, but the site itself is in our index. Consider adding a sitemap to help Google discover all the pages in your site.
How to fix Common Indexing errors with Google Search Console?
Click on the URL Inspection button. Next, click on View Crawled Page, and then More Info in the sidebar to the right: At this point, make sure the error has not been resolved already – it may have just been temporary. Open the relevant URL in a new tab to check that you can load it, then click on Test Live URL to force a refresh of the report:
What is the Index coverage report in Google search?
Search Console provides the Index Coverage report – formerly Crawl Stats – which shows pages that were indexed successfully, as well as those that were not. First, log into your Google account and open Search Console.
How big is the search index of Google?
As you can see in the screenshot below, Google stated that the issue impacted just a few websites (roughly 0.2%). This may sound like a small number but remember that Google’s index is huge and 0.2% of it is still a big number. The Google Search index contains hundreds of billions of webpages and is well over 100,000,000 gigabytes in size.