Crawl anomaly in Google Search Console: What it means and how to debug
What "Crawl anomaly" means in Google Search Console, common underlying causes (timeouts, intermittent 5xx, redirects), and a step-by-step debug flow.
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What "Crawl anomaly" means in Google Search Console, common underlying causes (timeouts, intermittent 5xx, redirects), and a step-by-step debug flow.
A practical guide to the GSC status "Crawled - currently not indexed": how to tell technical blockers from prioritization, and the few changes that reliably move URLs into the index.
A practical guide to the GSC status 'Discovered - currently not indexed': what it really signals (crawl allocation), why it's common after pivots/migrations, and the few actions that reliably increase indexing.
The GSC status “Duplicate without user-selected canonical” means Google found duplicates and chose a canonical you did not specify. This explains why it happens, the common duplication patterns (hosts, params, archives), and how to make your preferred canonical converge.
A practical guide to "Redirect error" in Google Search Console: why it happens (loops, chains, timeouts), how to diagnose quickly, and how to make redirects deterministic without breaking canonicalization.
A practical map of Google Search Console indexing statuses (Coverage): what each status means, the most common root causes (canonicals, duplicates, robots, redirects, soft 404s), and the fastest way to validate fixes.
A practical guide to the GSC status "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt": why it happens, why blocking can freeze bad URLs in the index, and the safest resolution paths (allow crawl + noindex vs allow crawl + index).
A practical guide to the GSC status 'Not found (404)': how to classify URLs (keep/move/remove), when to 301 vs 410, and how to stop crawl waste.
A practical guide to the indexing status "Page with redirect": why it happens, when it's normal, and how to fix redirect chains so Google indexes the right URL.
A practical guide to redirect loops: common causes (www/apex, http/https, trailing slash), how to diagnose quickly, and how to fix without creating chains.
A practical guide to "robots.txt unreachable": what Googlebot is seeing, common causes (timeouts, 403/5xx, WAF), and how to validate the fix in Search Console.
A practical guide to the GSC status 'Server error (5xx)': how to diagnose timeouts and intermittent failures, prioritize fixes, and confirm recovery.
A practical guide to "Soft 404" in Google Search Console: why Google labels 200 pages as not-found, the most common causes (empty templates, missing data, thin pages), and how to validate fixes.
A practical guide to "Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt": how to decide if the URL should be indexed, how to unblock safely, and how to avoid keeping bad URLs stuck in the index.
What 'Submitted URL has crawl issue' means in Google Search Console, the common underlying causes (robots, redirects, 4xx/5xx, rendering), and a step-by-step debug flow with validation.
What 'Submitted URL marked noindex' means in Google Search Console, the common causes (meta robots vs X-Robots-Tag), and how to validate the fix.
What 'Submitted URL not found (404)' means in Google Search Console, why it happens (bad sitemap / old URLs), and the fastest cleanup steps with validation.
A practical guide to the GSC status "Submitted URL seems to be a soft 404": why Google flags 200 pages as "not found", the most common causes, and how to validate fixes.
A practical checklist for diagnosing "Crawled - currently not indexed" / "crawled but not indexed" in Google Search Console. Separate technical blockers (robots, canonicals, redirects, rendering) from the more common reality: site-level prioritization.
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