Search Console says "Crawled, currently not indexed". What should I do?

This status means Google visited the page and chose not to add it to the index, at least for now. It is a quality and priority decision, not a technical error, so the fix is usually on the page and around it.

Common causes:

• Thin or duplicate-like content. The page says little, or says what a stronger page on your site already says.
• Low perceived value. Boilerplate pages, tag archives, filtered lists, and near-empty category pages often land here.
• Weak internal links. If the page is buried or only linked from a sitemap, Google has little reason to treat it as important.
• Soft errors. Pages that load but show an empty state or an error message in the body.
• A new site or a large batch of new pages. Indexing can take time, and some pages wait.

What to do:

1. Inspect 1 URL in Search Console and confirm the status. Open the live page to check it renders and returns 200.
2. Ask honestly whether the page earns its place. If not, noindex it or remove it and take it out of the sitemap.
3. If it should exist, make it clearly useful: unique content, specific details, and a clear purpose for a visitor.
4. Link to it from relevant, well-linked pages with descriptive anchor text.
5. Check canonicals. A page that points to another URL as canonical will not be indexed on its own.
6. Request indexing once after the changes. Repeated requests do not speed anything up.
7. Wait, then recheck in a few weeks.

Do not try to force every page into the index. A smaller site with strong pages usually performs better than a large one full of weak ones.

Rule out the mechanical causes first.

Before you judge quality, inspect the URL in Search Console and compare the canonical you declared with the one Google selected. Open the live page and confirm it returns 200 and that the main text is in the HTML Google received, not added later by script. A noindex tag left over from staging is also worth ruling out.

If all of that is clean, the decision is about the page's value, and the steps above apply.

Prune before you push.

If a section of the site is full of near empty pages, such as tag archives or filter combinations, the better move is often to noindex or remove them and take them out of the sitemap. That turns the sitemap into a list of pages you actually want indexed, and it tells you something when a page on that list is not indexed.