Why Isn't My Blog Indexing?: Part 6 — WordsByEkta🌿
Why Isn’t It Indexing? Reading the Google Bot’s "Secret Diary"
The Frustration Phase: You’ve done everything right. You submitted the sitemap, requested indexing, and added internal links. But when you check your status, it still says "URL is not on Google."
Most bloggers quit here. They think their blog is "broken." But Google actually leaves you clues in the Indexing Report and the Crawl Stats. To fix the problem, we have to understand why the Google Bot is walking away from your door.
1. Decoding the "Page Indexing" Statuses
Inside GSC, under the Pages tab, Google categorizes your "Not Indexed" posts. If yours is stuck, it’s likely for one of these four reasons:
| GSC Status | The Reality (The Why) | The Fix (The How) |
|---|---|---|
| Discovered - currently not indexed | Google knows the page exists but hasn’t visited (crawled) it yet. | Add more internal links from indexed posts to "invite" the bot over. |
| Crawled - currently not indexed | Google visited and read it, but didn’t think it was valuable enough to list. | Improve content quality. Add depth, better images, and request again. |
| Page with redirect | Blogger's mobile links (?m=1) are confusing the bot. |
Use only main URLs (links ending with .html). Fix theme layout issues if redirects persist — this uses the canonical fix method discussed in the next article, which tells Google Bot to ignore mobile variations even if Blogger redirects them. |
| Alternate page with canonical | Google detects two versions and has chosen the wrong one as the Master (Canonical). | Check if your theme correctly identifies the Canonical version — explained in the next article. |
Quick Deep Dive into Statuses:
Discovered: Your site is currently "Low Priority." The librarian knows the book is in the box but hasn't picked it up yet.
Crawled: This is often a quality check. If a post is too short or looks like a duplicate, Google skips it.
?m=1). If it still throws errors after you've requested the correct URL, it's likely a theme-level issue. (We will cover the "Canonical Fix" in detail in Article 5!)
2. Checking the "Crawl Stats" (The Bot’s Secret Diary)
There is a hidden report in GSC that shows you how many times a day the "Google Bot" visits your house.
Path: Settings ➔ Crawl Stats ➔ Open Report.
Look for Discovery vs. Refresh. You want Google coming to discover new things. If your daily crawl count is zero for more than 3 consecutive days, it’s a red flag—check your sitemap or internal links immediately.
3. The "Crawl Frequency" Habit
New blogs have a low crawl frequency (visiting every few days). Established blogs get visited every few minutes.
How to move from Low to High? Consistency. If you publish regularly, the Bot "learns" your schedule and starts showing up exactly when you post. This is how you "train" the librarian to check your shelf first.
4. One Mistake That Resets All Your Progress
The single most common mistake bloggers make after reading their Crawl Stats is panic-requesting indexing too many times. If you see "Discovered — currently not indexed" and immediately hit Request Indexing five times across five different posts in one session, Google's quota system flags your property and slows down its response to you further.
The rule of thumb is simple — request indexing once per post, then wait at least a week before checking again. Use that week to improve the post itself: add a paragraph, fix a heading, add an internal link from another indexed post pointing to it. When Google's bot returns and finds the page genuinely improved, it is far more likely to index it than if it finds the exact same content you submitted the first time.
WordsByEkta🌿 Final Thought: If your blog feels invisible, don't panic. Most of the time, it’s a technical "misunderstanding" between your blog and the Google Bot. Use Crawl Stats to see if the Bot is visiting, and use the Indexing Report to see if a Redirect or Canonical error is blocking the way. Once you understand the why, the how becomes easy.
Everything I Learned — So You Don't Have To Figure It Out Alone
The technical mistakes I made in year one — the full HTML inside Blogger, the missing meta descriptions, the duplicate H1 tags, the links closing articles — I have written all of it down. Every fix. Every discovery. Every hour of confused trial and error turned into a clear guide.
🌿 The WordsByEkta Blogger Technical Series
- Blogger is Underrated & I'm Rooting for It: Part 1
- How to Set Up Your Blogger About Me Page: Part 2
- Google Search Console for Bloggers: Part 3
- How to Request Indexing in GSC: Part 4
- Internal Linking for Fast Indexing: Part 5
- Why Isn't My Blog Indexing?: Part 6
- Canonical Tag Fix for Blogger: Part 7
- The AdSense Locked Widget Hack: Part 8
- Use Pingomatic for Faster Indexing: Part 9
- Decoding GSC Reports: Part 10
- Get Traffic from Bing and Yahoo: Part 11
- The AdSense Checklist: Part 12
- Auto Submit Blogger Posts to Bing: Part 13
- Custom Contact Form for Blogger: Part 14
- Extract Blog Post URLs from Sitemap: Part 15
- Open Links in New Tab Blogger: Part 16
- Blogger HTML Mode SEO Mistakes: Part 17
- Google Takeout Blogger Not Working: Part 18
- Google Indexing API for Blogger Using Python OAuth2: Part 19
- Is Blogger Worth It Nowadays?: Part 20
- Blogger Mobile HTML Editor Trick for Full Code Copy: Part 21
- Claim Blogger Site on Pinterest (No Custom Domain): Part 22
- Follow.it Email Subscriptions Setup on Blogger: Part 23
- How to Exclude Your Own Visits from GA4 Analytics: Part 24
- Auto Update All Blogger Posts Using Python and Blogger API: Part 25
- My Blog Passed 118/118 AdSense Checks: Part 26
- Ad Networks for Blogger Besides AdSense: Part 27
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