How to Fix 'Discovered – Currently Not Indexed' and Crawl Budget Issues
Seeing hundreds of URLs stuck under 'Discovered – Currently Not Indexed' in Google Search Console means Google is aware of your pages but chooses not to spend compute crawling them.
1. The Root Causes
- Thin or Programmatic Content: Pages lacking unique editorial insight or original data blocks.
- Orphan Pages: URLs not linked from any other page within your website architecture.
- Slow Server Time to First Byte (TTFB): Server taking >1000ms to respond to crawler requests.
2. The 3-Step Fix
Add 2–3 contextual internal links from your highest-authority blog posts, expand the content depth by 400 words, and resubmit via the GSC URL Inspection tool.
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