“Discovered — Currently Not Indexed”: What It Means and How to Fix It

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“Discovered — currently not indexed” is a status in Google Search Console meaning Google knows a URL exists — usually from your sitemap or a link — but hasn’t crawled or indexed it yet. It’s not a penalty and it’s not an error in the traditional sense; it’s a queue state. The page is waiting, and Google hasn’t decided it’s worth the crawl budget to actually visit it right now.