Indexing

After crawling, the engine renders the page (running your JavaScript), works out what it is about, dedupes it against near-identical pages, and decides whether it earns a slot in the index. Only indexed pages can rank. Search Console's Pages report is one diagnostic signal, not ground truth: it is aggregated and it lags. 'Crawled, currently not indexed' tells you Google looked and passed, and nothing more, so pair it with URL Inspection, a look at the rendered page, crawl logs, your canonicals, and an honest read of the content before you name a cause.

What keeps a page out: a noindex robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header, a canonical pointing at a different URL, a redirect, a 404 or soft 404, or content that simply is not worth a slot next to what already ranks. Note that robots.txt does the opposite of what people expect: it blocks the crawl, so Google can still index a bare URL from external links while never seeing the noindex tag inside.

Indexing is neither instant nor guaranteed. A new page can take days to weeks. You can nudge it: link to it from a page that already gets crawled often, put it in the sitemap, request indexing in Search Console. Volume is the enemy. Dumping 5,000 templated pages at once is the fastest way to have most of them sit uncrawled or dropped.