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Product Page Not Being Indexed

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l1fejosh

3:07 pm on Sep 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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I am struggling with our product pages not being indexed. On GSC, it shows that the URLs in question are "Discovered - currently not indexed".

The content on all of our product pages is not duplicated from other pages and is 100% unique. For the product description, there are about 2000 characters.

The URL structure is pretty long, for example: sitename.com/product/this-is-a-product-test-of-the-long-url-structure-does-this-help-300

According to GSC, there's 257 pages that fall under the "Discovered - currently not indexed". Some of these pages have been created a while ago and still haven't been crawled by Google.

There's no Google-selected catatonic, its unique content.

Most images used on the product pages are not of our own, but instead taken from the manufacturer website.

A lot of these pages share the same keyword, such as a brand name in the URL.

If someone could point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it! We're losing out on visibility if you can't find what you're searching for.

not2easy

4:06 pm on Sep 20, 2023 (gmt 0)

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There seems to be a lot of "Discovered - currently not indexed " going around right now, there is not much other than patience to correct it, unfortunately.

I've noticed several new posts this morning that are in that situaation, in the Google Search and SEO update thread: [webmasterworld.com...]

RareBit

10:08 am on Sep 21, 2023 (gmt 0)

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What happens if you manually submit them for indexing? I know this might not be a feasible option if there is a lot of pages but we had the same issue on a section of our site and after re-submitting the pages they stayed in the index.

l1fejosh

5:33 pm on Sep 21, 2023 (gmt 0)

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After submitting them for index, they say they have been "Crawled - currently not indexed".

OldFaces

6:54 am on Sep 22, 2023 (gmt 0)

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I have a similar issue that's been ongoing for years. Have you noticed whether or not pages contained in different directories are indexed? E.g. pages contained in /product/ are not being indexed, but pages contained in /category/ are?

tangor

4:23 pm on Sep 22, 2023 (gmt 0)

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If this is a CMS can the product be found via a different/related url? Reducing everything to a canonical might reduce any confusion.

RareBit

3:02 pm on Sep 26, 2023 (gmt 0)

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If Google is crawling the pages but not indexing them then there is an issue somewhere. Either low quality or a site issue.