Google Search Console: How to Fix "Not Indexed" Errors on Blogger
Demystifying Google Search Console: How to Fix "Not Indexed" Errors on Blogger
If you are running a blog on Blogger, nothing is more frustrating than pouring your heart into a comprehensive guide—whether it is a deep dive into Python Data Science fundamentals or a step-by-step tutorial on Meta Business Suite access—only to find it completely invisible on Google.
You log into your Google Search Console, look at the indexing dashboard, and see a terrifying table full of warnings: Discovered - currently not indexed, Crawled - currently not indexed, and Redirect errors.
Your immediate instinct might be panic. Is your site broken? Has Google flagged you as spam?
Take a deep breath. The short answer is no. Your site isn't broken, and you haven't been penalized. What you are experiencing is a mix of Google’s modern queuing algorithm and classic platform quirks. Let’s pull back the curtain on what these errors actually mean and look at the exact step-by-step framework to fix them permanently.
The Three Horsemen of Indexing Delays
When Google Search Console lists pages under the "Why pages aren't indexed" tab, it categorized them into distinct bucket states. Understanding these states dictates your next move.
1. "Discovered - Currently Not Indexed"
This is the ultimate waiting room. When you see this status, it means your technical SEO settings worked flawlessly. Google successfully found your URLs—most likely through the
sitemap.xml file you submitted—and added them to its crawling queue.However, because Google manages billions of websites, it actively rations its server resources (known as a crawl budget). It knows your pages exist, but it simply hasn’t spent the time to open the door and look inside yet.
2. "Crawled - Currently Not Indexed"
This state means Google's spider did visit your page, read your text, and left. But it made a conscious decision not to save it to the public directory just yet.
For newer websites or blogs that are just starting to gain traction, Google often hesitates. It wants to see if your website consistently produces valuable content and establishes a clear structural layout before committing to hosting it permanently in search results.
3. "Redirect Error"
On Blogger, this specific issue is incredibly common and almost always stems from the platform's mobile routing logic. When a smartphone bot crawls your site, Blogger appends a mobile tag (
?m=1) to the URL. If the server response stumbles even slightly during that handoff, Google logs a scary-looking "Redirect Error," even though your desktop page loads perfectly fine.
The Execution Plan: How to Force Google to Index Your Pages
Fixing these issues requires a two-pronged approach: optimizing your site's internal structure for search engine spiders, and manually triggering Google's evaluation systems.
Step 1: Build Bridges with Anchor-Text Internal Links
Think of Googlebot like a spider navigating a web. If a blog post sits isolated in a corner with no other pages pointing to it, it becomes an "orphan page." Spiders struggle to find it.
Instead of writing generic text like "visit my other posts," weave descriptive, keyword-rich anchor text naturally into your sentences.
- The standard way: "To learn coding, check out my link."
- The professional way: "Once you have mastered basic syntax, you can seamlessly transition to our advanced guide on Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence."
By placing explicit hyperlinks across your content, you force the crawler to naturally hop from one article to the next, pulling your "Discovered" pages right out of the queue.
Step 2: Override the Mobile Redirect Bug
For the pages flagged with a Redirect Error, use the manual inspection tool inside Search Console to force an update.
- Click on the Redirect Error row to see the affected URLs.
- Select a URL and click the Magnifying Glass icon (URL Inspection tool) at the top of the dashboard.
- Click Test Live URL.
- If the live test renders completely green with no issues, click Request Indexing. This forces Google’s system to bypass the automated glitch and read the fresh page immediately.
Step 3: Trigger the "Start Validation" Protocol
If your Search Console dashboard shows a status of "! Not Started" next to your indexing errors, Google’s bots are letting those pages sit indefinitely. You must manually prompt the algorithm to re-evaluate your progress.
Click into each error category and select the blue Start Validation (or Validate Fix) button. This places your blog back on Google’s priority list for active recrawling.
The Golden Rule: Patience Over Panic
The single biggest mistake new publishers make is continuously toggling settings, changing themes, or altering their
robots.txt files out of frustration. Every major change you make effectively resets Google's internal evaluation clock.Once you have optimized your internal linking structure, submitted your sitemap, and clicked validation, leave the site alone for 7 to 10 days. Google Search Console operates on a lag and can take up to a few weeks to visually update its graphs. Focus on writing rich, deeply researched content, let your internal link architecture do the heavy lifting, and allow the algorithm the time it needs to process your digital footprint.
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