9 Major Reasons why your web pages are not indexed

There are problems with the quality of your pages if they don’t have enough information, mislead people, or are too biased. If your page doesn’t have unique, valuable content that Google wants to show to users, it will be hard to get it indexed. Let us discuss Major Reasons why your web pages are not indexed

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Most Common why web pages are not indexed

Not found (404) – The server can’t find the requested resource. This is shown by the HTTP 404 Not Found response status code. Links that lead to a 404 page are often called broken or dead links, and they can be affected by link.
Excluded by ‘noindex’ tag – “Noindex tag” tells search engines not to index a page. It blocks website indexing.
Soft 404 – The server sends 200 OK for the requested page, but Google thinks it should return 404.
Page with redirect – Way to forward visitors and search engines from one URL to another and moving visitors to a different Web page than the one they request, usually because the page requested is unavailable.
Alternate page with proper canonical tag – Google will just leave out the duplicate version and only index the main one if there are two versions of the same page with the same canonical URL.
Duplicate without user-selected canonical – Identical or very similar content on your website
Crawled – currently not indexed – A specific page was visited and crawled by Googlebot, yet it was not indexed. Because of this, the page won’t show up in the results of a Google search.
Duplicate, Google chose different canonical than user – Google decides these URLs or pages to be duplicate and has believed to ignore defined canonical URLs
Discovered – currently not indexed – Google discovers and knows about the specific URL but yet to crawl or index.