WP Technical SEO ConsultantCrawlability and Indexing Fixes: Get Your WordPress Pages Into Google
If Search Console says "Crawled, currently not indexed" or "Discovered, currently not indexed," your pages are invisible no matter how good they are. I diagnose why Google is skipping them, fix the root cause, and track every URL until the coverage report clears.
Pages don't get indexed for a reason, and Google tells you which one. Crawled but not indexed means Google saw the page and judged it not worth a slot yet. Discovered but not indexed means Google hasn't even bothered to look. Both are fixable once you address the cause instead of resubmitting and hoping.
Why are your pages not indexed?
Across 100+ WordPress audits, indexing failures come down to six causes. Your site probably has more than one, and they compound.
Google thinks the page isn't worth indexing
Thin content, near-duplicates, and templated pages fall under Google's quality threshold. The fix is consolidation and differentiation, not resubmitting the same page ten times.
Crawl budget spent on the wrong URLs
Tag archives, date archives, feeds, and parameter URLs soak up Googlebot's attention. Your money pages sit in the queue behind junk WordPress generates automatically.
Canonical and duplicate signals conflict
When www and non-www, trailing slashes, or tag pages compete, Google picks one version, and it's often not the one you wanted indexed.
Internal links never reach the page
Orphan pages with no internal links look unimportant to Google. If your own site doesn't link to a page, why would Google index it?
Noindex and robots leftovers
A staging-era noindex tag, a blanket robots.txt rule, or a plugin setting nobody remembers flipping. More common than anyone admits.
Server and rendering problems
Slow responses, timeouts, and JavaScript-dependent content make Googlebot defer crawling. Discovered, currently not indexed is often exactly this.
What does the Indexing Rescue include?
This is root-cause work, not resubmission theater. I read your Search Console coverage report line by line, match every excluded URL to its actual cause, and fix the causes on your WordPress site. The package covers up to 50 affected URLs; bigger sites get a custom quote before we start, never a surprise after.
WordPress-specific crawl traps get special attention because they're usually the biggest budget drain: tag and date archives, attachment pages, feed URLs, and the parameter URLs WooCommerce filters generate by the thousand. Most guides never mention them. They're where your crawl budget went.
When the fixes are live, I resubmit, validate in Search Console, and track each URL until it's indexed or we know exactly why it shouldn't be.
- Root-cause diagnosis of every GSC coverage status on your site
- Robots.txt rewritten: junk blocked, money pages opened, AI crawlers configured
- XML sitemap rebuilt to include only index-worthy URLs
- Noindex cleanup and index-bloat pruning
- Canonical conflicts resolved across www, slashes, tags, and pagination
- Internal links built to stranded and orphan pages
- Resubmission and validation tracked until the GSC report clears
How fast can indexing recover?
Faster than most people expect once the cause is actually fixed. Pages stuck for months typically start entering the index within days to a few weeks of the root cause being removed, because Google recrawls known URLs on its own schedule and no longer finds a reason to skip them.
What I won't promise is a specific date, because crawl scheduling belongs to Google, not to me. What you get instead is complete transparency: a tracked list of every affected URL, its status when we started, its cause, its fix, and its status now. When something stays excluded, you'll know the reason in plain English, and sometimes the honest reason is that the page needed to be better, which is a content conversation, not a technical one.
If the diagnosis shows your indexing problem is really a site-wide quality or architecture problem, I'll route you to the full technical audit instead of selling you a package that treats one symptom.
Indexing problems, answered
What does crawled, currently not indexed mean?
Google visited your page, read it, and decided not to add it to the index, usually because it judged the page too similar to others or below its quality threshold. It's not a penalty and not a bug. It's Google saying this page didn't earn a slot yet, and the fix is making the page clearly worth indexing, then re-requesting.
What does discovered, currently not indexed mean?
Google knows the URL exists but hasn't crawled it yet. This usually points to crawl budget problems or a site Google doesn't consider urgent to crawl, often because of slow server responses or too many low-value URLs competing for attention. Fixing it means cleaning up what Googlebot wastes time on.
How long does it take to get pages indexed after the fix?
Once root causes are fixed, previously stuck pages typically start indexing within days to a few weeks as Google recrawls. I track every affected URL until the coverage report clears, and the package includes resubmission and validation, not just the fixes.
Can't I just click Request Indexing in Search Console?
You can, and for one page that's genuinely fine, it sometimes works. But requesting indexing on a page Google already rejected doesn't change why it was rejected. If dozens of pages are stuck, the cause is structural, and no amount of clicking fixes a structural problem.
Will you deindex pages on purpose?
Often, yes, and it helps. Most WordPress sites carry index bloat: tag archives, thin attachments, and near-duplicate pages that drag down Google's assessment of the whole site. Removing junk from the index concentrates your site's quality signals on the pages that earn money.
My whole site isn't showing up on Google. Is that the same service?
Yes, that's the extreme version of the same problem, and it's usually one of a few causes: a site-wide noindex, a robots.txt block, a manual action, or a site so new it has no signals yet. The diagnosis identifies which one within the first day.
Your best pages deserve to be in the index
Send me your site and I'll tell you which of the six causes is hitting you. If it's a five-minute fix, I'll tell you that too.