Indexability
Whether a page is allowed and suitable to enter a search index. Passing the checks makes it eligible, not guaranteed to be included.
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What it is
Indexability is whether a fetched page is eligible to enter a search engine's index. A normal 200 response with useful content is the starting point. A noindex robots directive, a redirect, an error or soft 404, or a canonical pointing elsewhere can make the URL ineligible or tell the engine that another URL should represent it.
Reach for this term after crawlability is confirmed but the page still does not appear in search. Inspect the raw HTTP headers and HTML for X-Robots-Tag, <meta name="robots">, and <link rel="canonical">, then compare them with the rendered DOM. A JavaScript-injected directive counts once the engine renders it.
Gotcha: eligible is not accepted. Search engines can crawl an indexable page and still decline to store it because it duplicates another page or adds too little value. Search Console files that outcome under the status 'Crawled - currently not indexed', which means nothing is broken and Google simply passed. Google may also choose a different canonical from the one you declared, because rel=canonical is a hint rather than a command.
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Diagnose this URL's indexability with Google Search Console URL Inspection. Check the final HTTP status, X-Robots-Tag header, robots meta tag, rel=canonical value, rendered DOM, duplicate content, and soft 404 signals. Confirm that robots.txt permits the fetch so Google can see any noindex directive. Name the exact blocking signal, remove conflicting directives, and return the corrected HTML head and HTTP headers.