Diagnose "Crawled, currently not indexed" without guessing

"Crawled, currently not indexed" is worse than "Discovered" because Google did the work — fetched your page, parsed it, looked at it — and explicitly chose not to add it to the index. No amount of Indexing API pushing will fix that. You have to change the page.

What Google is signaling

Crawled-not-indexed is a quality verdict. The page passed the crawler but failed the quality classifier. Common patterns: thin content, near-duplicate of a stronger page, low E-E-A-T signals, or part of a low-quality cluster (the rest of the site drags it down).

The diagnostic audit

1. Run the URL through the Indexability Audit. Pay special attention to word count, unique-content score, and internal link count.
2. Compare the page to ranking competitors for its target query. If they're 2000 words with original research and yours is 300 words of generic intro, that's your answer.
3. Check Search Console's site-wide coverage report. If 40% of your site is crawled-not-indexed, you have a quality problem, not a per-page problem.
4. Look for cannibalization: do you have 3 pages targeting the same query? Google may be picking one and skipping the others.

Common fixes that actually work

• Add unique value: original research, screenshots, comparison tables, real examples.
• Consolidate cannibalized pages into one stronger canonical and 301 the rest.
• Add internal links from your highest-authority pages. Google reads link signals as a quality vote.
• Improve E-E-A-T: author bio, sources cited, last-updated date, expertise markers.
• Get one or two relevant backlinks. Even a single quality link can flip a page from skipped to indexed.

When to give up on a URL

Some URLs are not worth saving. Old tag archives, paginated category pages, thin location pages, near-duplicate variants — sometimes the right answer is noindex, consolidate, or delete. A leaner site of strong pages outranks a bloated site of weak ones every time.