Why Indexing Matters
If your page is not indexed, it will never appear in Google search results — regardless of how great your content is.
Common Reasons Pages Aren’t Indexed
- 🚫 Blocked by robots.txt or meta noindex tag
- 🛑 Duplicate, thin, or low-quality content
- 🕒 Google hasn’t discovered or crawled the page yet
- 🔗 Lack of internal or external backlinks
How to Get Indexed
- ✅ Submit the page in Google Search Console
- ✅ Add internal links pointing to the page
- ✅ Improve content quality and ensure fast page load
- ✅ Avoid noindex meta tags and robots.txt blocks
Examples: quick fixes that unlock indexing
- Meta noindex present: Remove
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> and resubmit in URL Inspection.
- Canonical to a different page: Change
rel="canonical" to the actual URL you want indexed.
- HTTP 404/500: Fix the error, return
200 OK, then request indexing.
- Orphan page: Link to it from your navigation or a relevant, already-indexed page.
Pro tip: use the URL Inspection tool’s direct link (replace yourdomain.com):
https://search.google.com/search-console/inspect?resource_id=https://yourdomain.com/&url=https%3A%2F%2Fexample.com%2Fpage
