Mass-recheck indexing status after a Google core update

Every Google core update reshuffles the index. Pages that were ranking drop. Pages that were ignored start showing up. Pages that were Indexed silently move to Crawled-not-indexed. Search Console aggregates the noise but doesn't make per-URL comparisons easy. Bulk URL Inspection through IndexerNow does.

The post-update audit

1. Wait until the update finishes rolling out (Google announces it on the Search Status Dashboard).
2. Open IndexerNow → Status tab → pull URLs from your sitemap.
3. Run a status batch on your top 100-200 pages (the ones you care about ranking).
4. Export to CSV. Compare against a pre-update snapshot if you have one.
5. Flag any URL that flipped from Indexed → Crawled-not-indexed. Those are your damage cases.

What status changes mean

• Indexed → Indexed: stable, no action needed.
• Indexed → Crawled-not-indexed: Google demoted the page below the indexability threshold. Audit and improve.
• Discovered → Indexed: net positive, often happens for new content with the update giving it a re-crawl.
• Indexed → Removed: rare but serious. Usually a manual action or a major canonical change.

When pushing helps and when it doesn't

If a URL got demoted because Google re-evaluated it and lowered the quality verdict, pushing won't help — Google made a judgment, not a logistics error. If a URL got dropped from the index entirely, pushing may recover it after you address whatever signal caused the drop. When in doubt, audit the URL first.