Search Console page indexing errors, explained
Every status in the Page indexing report: what it means, whether it is a problem, and how to fix it.
- Discovered – currently not indexed Depends on the page
- Crawled – currently not indexed Depends on the page
- Duplicate without user-selected canonical Depends on the page
- Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user Usually needs fixing
- Alternate page with proper canonical tag Normally fine
- Page with redirect Normally fine
- Not found (404) Depends on the page
- Soft 404 Usually needs fixing
- Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag Depends on the page
- Blocked by robots.txt Depends on the page
- Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt Usually needs fixing
- Blocked due to unauthorized request (401) Depends on the page
- Blocked due to access forbidden (403) Usually needs fixing
- Server error (5xx) Usually needs fixing
- Redirect error Usually needs fixing
- Blocked due to other 4xx issue Depends on the page
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