Search Console Errors and How to Fix Them

01Is Every Warning an Error?

Most site owners who open Search Console for the first time panic when they see hundreds of “not indexed” rows. Yet a large part of this list is expected: old addresses that redirect, duplicates with filter parameters, admin pages you deliberately closed off.

The right question is this: is a page that should be in the index on this list? If your product, service, category or blog pages are out of the index, there is a problem. If the cart, a search result or a thank-you page is out of the index, everything is fine.

To make this distinction, first list your site's important pages and make sure your sitemap contains only those. When the sitemap is clean, the noise in the report drops too. If the basics are new to you, starting with our what is SEO guide will make things easier.

02Reading the Page Indexing Report

The Pages report under Indexing splits pages into indexed and not indexed. Each row in the table below is a reason; click a row to see sample URLs.

The most common page indexing issues and what they mean are summarized in the table below.

03Crawled – Currently Not Indexed

The crawled – currently not indexed status means Google visited the page but has not found it worth adding to the index for now. There is no technical obstacle; the problem is usually about content value or the site's overall quality.

The fix is not to submit the page again and again with “request indexing”. Check whether the page really answers a unique question. Pages generated from the same template with only the city name changed, or product descriptions of three sentences, end up on this list.

• Enrich the content: add original descriptions, tables, images and FAQs.
• Merge similar pages; 301 redirect weak duplicates to the main page.
• Add internal links to the page from related categories and blog posts.
• Raise the site's overall quality by keeping pages with no value out of the index.

04Discovered – Currently Not Indexed

In this member of the not indexed error family, Google knows the address but hasn't crawled it yet. It is common on new sites and on sites that add many pages in a short time.

There are usually two causes: the crawl rate is kept low because the server responds slowly, or the page sits deep in the site. Improving server response time and making important pages reachable from the menu or categories is often enough. On heavy templates, speed and performance management feeds directly into crawl budget.

05Duplicate and Canonical Page Problems

Duplicate page warnings show that the same or very similar content opens at more than one address: the www and non-www versions, addresses with and without a trailing slash, http and https, product URLs with color parameters.

Google picks one of these duplicates as the canonical page. If your choice differs from Google's, your signals are contradicting each other. The canonical tag, internal links, sitemap and redirects should all point to the same address.

Canonical check

The page source should contain a single canonical tag, pointing to its own preferred address. Open the source in your browser and look for a line like the one below.

<link rel="canonical" href="https://ornek.com/urunler/deri-canta/">

One-address rule

The site should have a single version; every other version should 301 redirect to it. When this rule is set up from the start, most duplicate warnings never appear. SEO-friendly web design sets up this structure before launch.

06Experience Reports and Core Web Vitals

The Core Web Vitals report in the Experience section groups pages as good, needs improvement and poor, based on real user data. The thresholds are public: LCP ≤ 2.5 s, INP ≤ 200 ms, CLS ≤ 0.1.

The report shows groups of similar URLs, not individual pages. One heavy image in a product template can drop all product pages to poor; a single template fix improves hundreds of pages at once. For sites with mostly mobile users, responsive design is the foundation of these metrics.

On low-traffic sites this report may stay empty because there isn't enough real user data. In that case you can run lab measurements with PageSpeed Insights and work toward the same thresholds.

07Verification Steps After a Fix

After you fix the problem on the site, you need to tell Search Console. Otherwise the report keeps its old state until Google recrawls the pages on its own schedule.

1. Open a sample URL in the URL Inspection tool and run the live test.
2. If the live test shows the problem is gone, click Validate fix on the relevant report row.
3. Request indexing for a few important pages; update the sitemap for bulk submission.
4. Monitor the validation process from a few days to a few weeks, and review failed addresses separately.

08A Structure That Prevents Errors from the Start

Most Search Console warnings come from structural decisions noticed only after launch: URL structure, redirect rules, pagination, filters and template speed. They can be fixed later, but they are much cheaper to set up before launch.

For a comprehensive crawl checklist, see our technical SEO checklist article. In e-commerce projects, choosing an e-commerce infrastructure that sets up category, filter and variant URLs correctly from the start is part of this picture.

Checking this short list before launch keeps the first months' reports largely clean: a single, consistent address version, a sitemap containing only important pages, removal of noindex tags left by mistake, a complete 301 table from the old site's addresses to the new ones, and filling empty category pages with content.

After launch, it is enough to look once a month at how the rows in the Pages report change. If the number of URLs under a reason suddenly jumps, there is usually a recent template, code or server change; looking for the problem in that change saves time. If you don't have time to do this regularly, you can get a monthly report and priority list as part of SEO and analytics.