Discovered - currently not indexed

[Amandip]

I'm working for a client's website SEO, I added new pages last week and requested to index, it is showing pages are "Discovered - currently not indexed". Will Google index it or not? If yes when, if not what should I do?

[SweetPotato]

It's up to Google. Try to have good internal linking to them. Make sure they are unique and have them on a sitemap. You can also send them individually.
Ultimately it's their decision when and if they want to add them. Nobody can know that date.

[not2easy]

Since you asked specifically whether Google will index it or not, look in the GSC account for that domain and ensure that it is set up properly. If the GSC account is not for the domain you are concerned about (including protocol) then you won't be able to see results under that domain. If the domain is accessible under multiple protocols, there will be long delays.

To Google, these are all different domains:
http://example.com
https://example.com
http://www.example.com
https://www.example.com

First ensure that only one of those domains can be accessed, then ensure that is the domain for the GSC account. Others can be added optionally, but it becomes much easier when there is only one that can be viewed.

[lucy24]

Obligatory reminder: Information from GSC has been known to be, uhm, not 100% accurate. Spot-check your raw logs to make sure G has, in fact, been crawling your site. If yes, do an exact-text search for a few random pages and see if your site comes up.

[Amandip]

Hi thanks for the reply, in GSC the crawler visit my pages, in excluded pages, it is showing the dates when it visited my site, and also I'm checking the crawled pages with site:"example.com". It is showing all the old pages, and 2 of the old pages are crawled again. But new pages are not appearing.

[Amandip]

@not2easy, canonicalization is already fixed, and website URL in GSC is right.

@tangor, it also has happened to me for the first time, for the first time I'm working on SEO of Wix site, before it when I worked on WordPress site, it never happened to me also, sometimes the URL gets crawled in under 5 minutes.

@SweetPotato, I have made the interlinking strong, let's see, if it works. But I guess it's not gonna work, already 2 days are passed I have done that, and google have visited my pages after that too.

[tangor]

Ignore GSC. What do your LOGS say?

If g has crawled and it was over 24 hours ago then you will need to do some actual text searches (10-20 consecutive words inside quotes) to see where g ACTUALLY ranks you. You might be page one hundred or lower.

This could be because g does not find the info/content sufficiently fresh or unique to rank higher. If that is the case take a look at your content and see what you can do to update or make it more intriguing. Contrary to common belief a NEW page talking about cats and does is NOT THAT NEW or THAT UNIQUE and in that case E-A-T will take your lunch and give you no joy.

YOUR RAW LOGS COME BEFORE whatever GSC might reveal. In the real world there's more than one tool to get the same job done.

Just sayin'

YMMV

[Amandip]

Where to see the logs, please let me know?

[not2easy]

Your host should be able to tell you where and how to access your logs. Generally they are available for download via ftp so if you ftp to your domain they can usually be found in a folder called /Logs/ and usually there is one or more compressed files for each month. You download and unzip the file and view them in your favorite program for that purpose. EXcel or LibreOffice or a decent text editor can be used. If your host uses CPanel, it usually has a few stats or analytic tools but examining the logs yourself is how you can see each visit, each request.

[engine]

It's also important to be patient.
Google tends to be a little slow to update sites that are less frequently updated.
It could be many weeks after googlebot's visit, so don't make any promises to the client. The key thing is that the page is updated when someone visits.

[Amandip]

I have already checked and fixed all these things, except inbound links, and I'm also working on that too.

<No Links Please>

I also have made the internal linking strong, by including the service section in all pages. But still, it is not getting crawled, for testing purposes, I also created new pages but google excluded that too. :(

[edited by: not2easy at 12:10 pm (utc) on Aug 6, 2020]
[edit reason] Please see ToS [webmasterworld.com] [/edit]

[engine]

Have you also submitted the site to Bing? See if Bing can crawl the site. Use Bing webmaster Tools or the API [webmasterworld.com...]

I think it's important to know the site is being crawled.

[lucy24]

But still, it is not getting crawled

Not crawled at all? Even though the pages have clearly visible links from pages that do get crawled? This is worrying, because even on relatively tiny obscure sites (mine!) it does not take G more than 24 hours to discover a whole new site. (For crawling purposes, going to HTTPS is treated exactly like a newly discovered site, with a full top-to-bottom crawl.)

As a first step, check your robots.txt. The term “service section” make me think of my /boilerplate/ directory, which includes material linked from all pages, but roboted-out because I do not have the kind of site where you might want /legal.html to be an entry page.

[Amandip]

Hi @engine, I checked bing, they had crawled the same 7 pages like Google. Then I integrated site with bing and submitted to crawl, and bing crawled my pages in under a day, also the pages have started ranking on bing. Even some pages are ranking on the first page of Bing.

@lucy24, It has crawled 7 pages, like homepage, contact about, etc. but not the services pages. First I created pages without the service section, and after some time I included the service section when Google didn't crawl pages. And exactly every time I submit a website, Google crawls it in less than 24 hours, but I don't know what to do with this now..

[engine]

@Amandip Good to know Bing is working.

Keep working on the site. Google loves fresh content.
Quality links are more valuable: Forget low quality links.