Discovered - Currently Not Indexed

This is a great example of just that how to fix the “Discovered – Currently Not Indexed” status. 

The error message was "Discovered - currently not indexed" for the post - https://scgroup.global/blog/4-essential-security-services/, when analyzed the URL by "URL inspection tool" in Google search console.


 The blog post is published on 7 June 2022. But the blog is not indexed in Google around 80 days.


As Google documentation says, "Discovered - currently not indexed" - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203?hl=en
Quoted: "The page was found by Google, but not crawled yet. Typically, Google wanted to crawl the URL but this was expected to overload the site; therefore Google rescheduled the crawl. This is why the last crawl date is empty on the report."

Sorted out all possible reasons for excluded page:

  • Step1: Analyzed the crawlability of the post is fine and checked for the http headers, meta for robots (“noindex” tags if any) and robots.txt and all was fine.  
  • Step2: Requested to review the blog post content quality.
  • Step3: Analyzed the health of our website server and Firewall log.

Our Firewall support team found:

  1. "206 response codes" in our firewall log for the particular blog post.
  2. "403 response codes" in our firewall log for the particular blog post.
  3. "304 response codes" from the hosting server sometimes for the site when Googlebot is making requests.


  • 206 - Partial Content: A status code of 206 is a response to a request for part of a document. This is used by advanced caching tools, when a user agent requests only a small part of a page, and just that section is returned. 
  • 403 - Status Code: The HTTP 403 Forbidden response status code indicates that the server understands the request but refuses to authorize it.
  • 304 - Status Code: The HTTP 304 Not Modified client redirection response code indicates that there is no need to retransmit the requested resources.

GoogleBot Crawl on its own schedule:

So, Googlebot will eventually crawl the post, but likely on its own schedule. Hard to force Google to crawl on demand at times.  We can "Request Indexing” but should only do that once as repeated submissions is not likely going to speed it up. Also, Google will go back anyhow to crawl the post on its own since it knows about this post URL.

Finally, the blog post is indexed in Google on 29 August 2022 - https://scgroup.global/blog/4-essential-security-services/

We did not make any changes in the content, but the blog post load performance is improved with the help of our web developer and then wait for the index.







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