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Crawled - Currently Not Indexed Issue for My Website

iorasl

5:36 am on Mar 24, 2025 (gmt 0)

Hello SEO experts,
The pages show "Crawled – currently not indexed" in Google Search Console, and they don’t appear when I search site:blog.example.com.

🔍 Issue Details:
Main Domain: example.com

Subdomain: blog.example.com

Problem: Google Search Console shows "Crawled – currently not indexed" for all blog pages.

I Recently Moved the Blog: I originally had the blog on the main domain but moved it to a subdomain. However, the issue remains the same.

Tried Indexing in GSC? Yes, I used the URL Inspection Tool and manually requested indexing, but it still hasn’t been indexed.

Sitemap Submitted? Yes, I added https://blog.example.com/sitemap.xml in Google Search Console.

Robots.txt Checked? Yes, and the subdomain is not blocked.

Noindex Tags? No, I checked the page source, and there is no <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag present.

Canonical Tags? The blog pages have <link rel="canonical" href="https://blog.example.com">, so there’s no wrong canonicalization.

Content Quality? The content is unique and valuable, not duplicate or thin.

Backlinks? The subdomain has some internal links from the main site, but very few external backlinks yet.

Mobile-Friendly? Yes, I tested it using Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test, and no issues were found.

What Could Be the Problem?
Since I moved the blog from the main domain to a subdomain, could this be affecting indexing? Should I do 301 redirects from the old URLs? Could it be a crawl budget issue, DNS configuration, or something else?

Any advice or solutions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!

not2easy

11:31 am on Mar 24, 2025 (gmt 0)

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Hello iorasl and welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com]

When the URL was changed (to a subdomain) you would need to submit a new sitemap if you had previously submitted a different sitemap. When your pages are unique they do not need a canonical tag on each page, that would not be accurate. You should read up on when and why to use a canonical metatag. That tag you are using says all pages are near duplicates of the home page. See their advice here: [developers.google.com...]

Since Google has started another update just over a week ago, they will be crawling again at some point. It can take time to reindex the site to your new URLs. The URL Inspection Tool is to verify that Google can crawl the site, but they ignore the manual requests for pages they have crawled and indexed.

If you visit the old sitemap URLs, do you see a 404 error message? Then you could create a Rewrite rule to capture and redirect the request to the new page. That would be discussed in the Apache forum: [webmasterworld.com...]

iorasl

5:12 am on Mar 25, 2025 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the advice. I've followed all the steps—submitted a new sitemap for the subdomain, checked canonical tags, and set up proper redirects. However, my pages are still not getting indexed.

Google Search Console shows them as "Crawled - currently not indexed." The URL Inspection Tool confirms Google can access them, but they are not appearing in search results.

Is this just a waiting game due to the recent Google update, or is there anything else I should check to speed up indexing? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!.

not2easy

11:20 am on Mar 25, 2025 (gmt 0)

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It can take months for Google to readjust to the new URLs and any delay is likely due to their sorting out what "was" and what "is". Google never forgets an URL they've seen.

Broaster

5:45 am on Mar 31, 2025 (gmt 0)

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This has been happening to a lot of websites. Its been happening to my news website, and none of my fresh content gets indexed untily 8 hours later. Its become hopeless. The past 3 years my website has received less and less traffic, until the past year where almost all traffic is now gone. Ill be lucky to get 50 to 100 visitors a day tops. Its hard to stay motivated when no traffic is coming in to help you make money to survive.

Brett_Tabke

12:50 pm on Oct 14, 2025 (gmt 0)

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How goes this war to get indexed?

There have been several "time based" theories put out there about "crawled and not indexed". Wondering if six months later now, you are seeing success?

(took us a year to get an old domain out of the sandbox and get it 100% indexed...)