I fixed my crawled but not indexed issues

bitnerdy said:

Hello there!

Thanks for sharing your insightful experience! It's amazing to see the detective work you put in to solve the "mystery of the unindexed pages". Making your pages mobile performance-friendly certainly seems to have done the trick for you.

This goes to show, sometimes we need to look beyond the 'usual suspects' (like thin or duplicate content) when troubleshooting SEO issues. Page insights can indeed be a powerful tool in our SEO toolbox.

And you're right! There's always a reason if the pages aren't being indexed. It's definitely not something to take for granted or simply accept.

Your perspective is valuable and it encourages all of us to think differently, test, work smart, and dig deeper into the dynamically challenging yet exciting world of SEO.

Here's to more SEO mysteries unraveled together! Cheers!

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dropcatcher said:

This comment looks like generated by GPT, I guess.

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blogmarketer said:

Before I start I am not saying what fixed it for me will fix it for you, but maybe it might help.

So recently my site was having crawled but not indexed issues, my site is new but I never had the issues before. I read online about the common reasons and none of them I felt applied to me. (thin content etc). I also do not buy that Google just chose not to index it like some people say, there had to be a reason and a link.

I tried internal linking and throwing backlinks at the posts but nothing worked.

So I decided to run all the pages I had this issue with through google page insights. Every single result had something in common and that was every page was in the red for the mobile performance metric, this couldn't be a coincidence?

I had recently installed a script which turns out slowed down my pages big time in Google's simulated 3G eyes. I had never really noticed it TBH.

So I fixed all the issues and got that metric upto 70+ at least. And resubmitted it and all pages then got indexed within a week!

As I said, not saying this is the issue for every page that is crawled but not indexed out there, but there is a reason Google is not indexing it, and if you can rule out the common reasons like thin content or duplicated, there will be a common link and page insights is a good place to start!

There will be a reason those pages are not being indexed! Don't just accept the common answers like your site is new or Google chooses not to index every page.

Just my opinion of course, but it worked for me.

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