Google says some of the website’s busiest pages aren’t in its index. Pages outside the index can’t appear in search results, so their search traffic dries up.
What it means
Google’s URL Inspection gives these pages a verdict other than indexed. The action lists up to three of them with Google’s reason, such as “Discovered - currently not indexed”, “Page with redirect” or “Alternate page with proper canonical tag”.
What triggers it
For websites linked to Search Console, Uptime monitoring’s daily checks ask the URL Inspection API about the five busiest landing pages from GA4 over the last 28 days. Any that aren’t indexed raise one High issue. Pages set to noindex or answering with an error are left out, because they raise their own issues; the home page has its own Critical issue.
Common causes
- The page redirects, or its canonical tag points to a different address.
- Google judged the page too thin or too similar to another page to index.
- robots.txt blocks it, or Google met server errors when it tried to crawl.
How to fix it
- In Search Console, inspect each URL and read why Google hasn’t indexed it.
- Fix what it reports: redirects, the canonical tag, robots.txt rules or server errors.
- Make sure the page is in the sitemap and linked from other pages, then request indexing.
When it clears
The issue goes once URL Inspection reports every watched page as indexed, or a page leaves the busiest five. Reindexing can take from a few days to a few weeks.
After 7 days without the problem, the action drops off the board. If you marked it done and the problem is still detected 14 days later, it returns as “Fix didn’t work”.