i don't get it. my sitemap is submitted, pages return 200, no noindex anywhere. yet:
most of my 1,200 blog posts sit in Crawled - currently not indexed :) some older pages from teh same section are indexed and even rank. im trying to figure out if this is a technical problem or a quality judgment. how do you tell teh difference? id love a way to diagnose this properly instead of guessing. seriously need help here 😭
ahh right if i'm honest, many of teh blog posts share about 80% of their text. Only the headings and a few details change. idk what else to say tbh
oof this status isnt an error. It means Google fetched teh page and decided not to index it, usually cuz it judged teh page low value or too similar to others. Requesting indexing rarely helps on its own; changing teh page or teh sites signals does. hope that helps :)
yeahhh keep the sitemap clean: only canonical URLs that return 200 and that you actually want indexed. Remove filtered, sorted, tag and parameter URLs. A sitemap full of low-value URLs dilutes teh signal for the good ones.
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