Audit 1,000 Pages at Once

Once a site passes even a few dozen pages, checking indexing status page-by-page in Search Console one URL at a time stops being realistic. Search Console's bulk reports, combined with a proper crawl, close that gap in one pass instead of a hundred manual checks.

Where Search Console already does the heavy lifting

• Pages report — grouped by Indexed vs. Not indexed, with a reason attached to every group.
• Sitemaps report — the gap between submitted and actually-indexed count is often the fastest signal that something's wrong.
• “Discovered — currently not indexed” vs. “Crawled — currently not indexed” — these sound similar but mean different things and need different fixes; the first means Google hasn't gotten to it yet, the second means it looked and chose not to index it.

The actual workflow

1. Export the full Pages report from Search Console.
2. Run a crawler across the whole site.
3. Cross-reference the two lists — pages that exist but were never crawled, or crawled but never indexed, surface immediately.
4. Prioritize fixes by realistic traffic potential, not by raw page count.

What a crawler adds that GSC alone can't show

Broken internal links, duplicate title and meta tags across pages, and orphaned pages with no internal links pointing to them at all — Search Console can tell you a page is indexed or not, but it can't tell you a page is structurally orphaned inside your own site.

Read this with healthy skepticism

“Not indexed” isn't always a problem that needs fixing. Thin filter pages, pagination, and near-duplicate variants are often correctly excluded on purpose — don't blindly chase 100% indexation as if every excluded page is a bug.