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Is it normal for Google to crawl and not index?
Posted by on April 5, 2026 at 3:02 pmI'm sure a lot of you are familiar with discovered currently not indexed or crawled currently not indexed. Now, I know nothing about SEO per se, I focus on landing pages, but have slowly been dabbling with local websites.
Is it normal for pages to be stuck on these two issues? I've seen online people just say just go in and request indexing. And yeah, that does seem to work. But I want to know, is this a deeper sign that Google doesn't think these pages are relevant or are thin on content? Or is this just a normal thing?
The pages that are currently sitting on discovered, currently not indexed, are in no way thin or irrelevant or just AI slop. They are structured properly, interlinked properly, and answer genuine questions, and align to EEAT where possible. So I'm just pondering what the issue could be.
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This is not a big deal. Even big sites experiencing this issue nowadays. Just submit those link again it will get indexed.
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This is always an authority issue u/Y0gl3ts
>I’m sure a lot of you are familiar with discovered currently not indexed or crawled currently not indexed.
Yup – 3 times a day here. Always resolved
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that Google doesn’t think these pages are relevant or are thin on content? Or is this just a normal thing?Nope- Google doesnt think you have the right topical authority. google has no idea if content is good
there is no such thing as “thin content”: – Google will index images, pages with no content or just an embedded video . Its a fabrication invented by the content industry
>and align to EEAT where possible
Forget it- you cannot “align with EEAT” – eeat is subjective, Google does not have sujbective preferences to make decisions from
[https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-confirms-you-cant-add-eeat-to-your-web-pages/543177/](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-confirms-you-cant-add-eeat-to-your-web-pages/543177/)
More Details.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1qzt59k/understanding_crawled_not_indexed_in_gsc_an/](https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1qzt59k/understanding_crawled_not_indexed_in_gsc_an/)
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjRssHJETxs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjRssHJETxs)
Understanding Crawled, Not Indexed in GSC - an Authority Issue
byu/WebLinkr inSEO
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