Fix: "Discovered – currently not indexed" in Google Search Console

"Discovered – currently not indexed" is Google saying: I know this URL exists, but I haven't bothered to crawl it. The page never got fetched, so this isn't a content-quality verdict yet — it's a priority decision. Google is rationing its crawl and your URL didn't make the cut.

Why Google parks URLs as Discovered

• Crawl budget — on large or slow sites, Google limits how much it fetches and your URL is low in the queue.
• Perceived low value — thin, templated, or near-duplicate URLs get deprioritized before they're ever crawled.
• Weak internal linking — a page that's only in the sitemap, with few or no internal links pointing to it, reads as unimportant.
• Server performance — if your server is slow or returns errors under Googlebot's load, Google backs off crawling.
• URL flood — programmatically generating thousands of similar URLs trains Google to crawl them lazily.

How to get them crawled

1. Add real internal links to the page from relevant, already-indexed pages — this is the single biggest lever for crawl priority.
2. Make the page demonstrably worth crawling: unique content, not a thin variant of a template.
3. Trim crawl waste — block faceted-navigation junk, parameter explosions, and infinite calendars in robots.txt so Google spends its budget on pages that matter.
4. Confirm fast, error-free responses for Googlebot (check the Crawl stats report for spikes in response time or 5xx).
5. Send an explicit crawl hint with the Indexing API — the strongest 'please come look now' signal Google exposes.
6. Re-check in URL Inspection after a few days; the state should move to Crawled or Indexed once Google fetches it.