A number of people have inquired whether or not Google has been indexing fewer pages on web sites since late Might. I’ve seen quite a lot of complaints, and whereas nothing is verified on Google’s finish, I needed to share these experiences with you.
The query is, how widespread is that this challenge, is it a problem, is it a reporting change, it’s a change to Google’s indexing algorithms or is it nothing?
John Mueller from Google replied to those considerations on Bluesky asking for particular examples, he wrote, “Which thousands and thousands of pages? Comfortable to listen to specifics.” He later added “Based mostly on these, I do not see a technical challenge on our (or on any of the websites) aspect. Our programs make changes in what’s crawled & listed often. That is regular and anticipated.”
Replace: John Mueller added on Bluesky, “However from taking a look at different examples, I do not see a problem. We do not index all content material, and what we index can change over time.”
Jason Kilgore first pinged me about this after which posted on LinkedIn saying, “I am seeing affirmation of this with TaxServiceNearYou.com; it has 0 backlinks, and is experiencing an outsized stage of elimination from the index which started on Might twenty sixth.” For him, the “Crawled – at present not listed” error noticed a spike.
He shared this screenshot with me of that indexing report:
Adam Gent additionally posted on LinkedIn and wrote, “At Indexing Perception we’re monitoring thousands and thousands of pages and over the previous couple of weeks our ‘Crawled -previously listed’ report has been blowing up.”
Right here is his screenshot:
Gagan Ghorta posted on X:
24Cryptoverse additionally posted on X:
Listed here are extra examples:
We’ve got seen this on greater than 10+ search consoles. Pages deindexed on twenty seventh, twenty eighth, and twenty ninth Might for all – these are lively enterprise web sites with good content material.
— Consainsights (@consainsights) June 5, 2025
John repied to that one however on Bluesky:
Which thousands and thousands of pages? Comfortable to listen to specifics.
— John Mueller (@johnmu.com) June 5, 2025 at 4:50 AM
I’ve observed a giant visitors drop from across the similar time although listed pages are the identical for me.
— PAPPACLARTUS (@_GTArena_) June 5, 2025
Plus, there are a selection of complaints about this within the feedback space on this web site:
It is the identical for me. Half of my web site has been deindexed since Might 27, 2025! We work like loopy to offer a dependable web site with verified information, and we’re being penalized whereas deceptive websites selling scams stay on the prime of the outcomes. It is simply disgusting!
I went by means of some random websites I’ve entry to in Google Search Console and I’m seeing a little bit of a sample right here – possibly:
I’m not certain if one thing is occurring or word – as Glenn Gabe famous on X it may not be one thing to fret about if it falls below ‘listed, although blocked by robots.txt.
For these seeing a giant drop in indexing lately, be sure it is not “listed, although blocked by robots.txt” dropping (which might look scary, nevertheless it’s not something to fret about). I wrote a put up about that scenario final June. 🙂 https://t.co/TNmdP9fVxe pic.twitter.com/VY30b4P4y8
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) June 4, 2025
This may be that or it may be a change to how Google processes this report or it may be one of many latest Google unconfirmed updates that ran that now resulted in Google not valuing the pages as a lot and thus indexing much less. For extra on that, see this text and this one – though, I’ve written about {that a} ton.
Are you noticing the identical sample? Examine your web page indexing report and dig in and tell us.
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
Replace: John Mueller added on Bluesky, “However from taking a look at different examples, I do not see a problem. We do not index all content material, and what we index can change over time.”
He later added “Based mostly on these, I do not see a technical challenge on our (or on any of the websites) aspect. Our programs make changes in what’s crawled & listed often. That is regular and anticipated.”
“That is seen in any mid-sized+ web site – you will note the graphs for indexing fluctuate over time. Generally the adjustments are smaller, larger, up, or down. Our crawl funds docs discuss crawl capability & crawl demand, in addition they play a task in indexing,” he additionally wrote.
It isn’t associated to a core replace, he later stated; “However, no, this isn’t associated to a core replace.”
