What do I do about "Discovered – currently not indexed"?
It means Google knows your URL but has not once come to read it. This is not an error or a penalty but a decision about importance: the site has many URLs and this one does not look worth the queue. Internal links and fewer junk URLs are what help.
It matters to separate this from the similar-sounding message. Discovered means the bot has not arrived. Crawled – currently not indexed means it arrived, read, and passed. Two completely different problems.
Why Google does not come
Too many URLs. Filters, sort parameters, calendars and search results create thousands of addresses with nearly identical content. The bot visits them, the budget runs out, and your new page stays in the queue.
No internal links. A page reachable only from the sitemap looks abandoned. A sitemap is a suggestion; an internal link is confirmation that the page matters to you.
A slow server. If responses take long, Google reduces its crawl rate to avoid hurting the site.
What to do, in order
- Add an internal link from a page that is already indexed and visited. It is the only fast signal you can give yourself.
- Reduce junk URLs — close filter combinations to crawling, tidy up parameters, remove empty listing pages.
- Check server speed. A TTFB above a second is a direct brake.
- Wait. A week or two is normal for a new page.
What not to do: request indexing daily in Search Console. It adds no importance, and the queue does not move because of it.
A free scan shows how many URLs are found on the site, which of them have no internal links at all, and what the server response time is.
Frequently asked
How long should it take to change?
From a few days to a few weeks. If nothing changes after a month with internal links in place, the reason is usually importance, not technology.
Does a sitemap help?
It helps discovery, not the decision. A page in the sitemap with no links pointing at it stays low in the queue.
Is manual index requesting worth it?
Once, yes. Daily, no: repeated requests speed up nothing.
Does this mean the page is bad?
No. It means Google has formed no opinion yet — it has not even read it.
Check yours
A free scan shows which of the things described here your site already does, and which it does not.