Category: Indexing

February 2024

How to fix Discovered Currently not indexed 

“Discovered – Currently not indexed” is a common indexing issue in Google Search Console. It means Google knows your page exists, but hasn’t visited it yet.  This article explains why this happens and provides solutions. Four reasons for “Discovered – currently not indexed” There are four reasons for “Discovered – currently not indexed”:  Let’s explore […]

February 2024

How to fix Crawled – currently not indexed

Crawled – currently not indexed is one of the most common reasons that a page isn’t indexed. Let’s explore how to fix this issue on your website! When Google shows "Crawled – currently not indexed" in Search Console, it means Google has seen your page but decided not to include it in search results. This […]

February 2024

How to check if Google properly renders your JavaScript content? 

JavaScript is a very popular technology. Most websites have at least one element that is generated by JavaScript.  I remember the first JavaScript SEO experiments by Bartosz Goralewicz back in 2017 when he showed Google had MASSIVE issues with indexing and ranking JavaScript websites.  Although Google went through a long journey, now in 2024 Google […]

December 2023

October Spam Update targeted indexing and traffic

A few years ago, I noticed a significant change in the SEO visibility of Giphy.com, a widely-used meme website, during one of Google’s core updates. Giphy experienced a drastic 90% drop in SEO visibility, which was a clear indication that drops in traffic during core updates might be closely tied to these updates. In this […]

July 2023

Twitter SEO problems – conspiracy or consequence? 

Recently, Twitter.com faced a significant decline of 30% in their SEO traffic, as estimated by Sistrix.  Twitter no longer ranks in Google for many prominent keywords, including “Trump”, “Yankees”, or “Jennifer Lopez”.   The potential cause behind this issue is rather straightforward.  The Cause: Restricting Googlebot’s Activity Twitter’s CEO, Elon Musk, made an announcement expressing their […]

June 2023

The Hidden Risk of Low-Quality Content 

In an article I wrote a while ago, I explored why Giphy.com lost a whopping 90% of its traffic. The diagnosis was clear: Google detected a significant portion of low-quality content on the website. As a result, this section was deindexed, leading to a significant drop in traffic. Now, let’s delve into how this process […]

June 2023

Why getting indexed is so difficult

Google doesn’t index all content on the internet. With limited resources and an ever-growing amount of online content, Googlebot can only crawl and index a small fraction of it. To quote Google’s blog:  “Google has a finite number of resources, so when faced with the nearly-infinite quantity of content that’s available online, Googlebot is only […]

March 2022

The Index Coverage Report Statuses Finally Explained

The Index Coverage report in Google Search Console allows you to check the indexing statuses of your pages and shows you any indexing problems Google encountered on your website. Regular monitoring of these statuses is extremely important. It allows you to quickly spot any issues that can keep your pages away from Google’s index and […]

November 2021

IndexNow

As announced on October 18th, 2021, Bing and Yandex are adopting IndexNow – a shared protocol that will allow website owners to notify these search engines whenever their website content is created, updated, or deleted. ‍In my opinion, it might be the most significant piece of news in the technical SEO world since Googlebot started using evergreen […]