Discovered - currently not indexed issue

[akashkandari]

Hello all,

We have a sitemap with URLs that have mostly user generated content. Profile Overview section. Where users write about their services and some other things.

Out of 46K URLs, only 14K are valid according to search console and 32K URLs are excluded. Out of these 32K, 28K are "Discovered - currently not indexed".

We can't really update these pages as they have user generated content. However we do want to leverage all these pages to help us in our SEO.

So the question is how do we make all of these pages indexable?

If anyone can help in the regard, please let me know.

Thanks!

[GastonRiera]

Hi there,

First of all, having more indexed pages is not what you should be aiming for. As its know that having more pages indexed can cause cannibalization, duplicate content and thin content problems.

In your case, I'd try to analyze why those pages are being left off by Google. 
-> My guess: poor or thin content, as it is UGC.

Here some other questions that might help you work out the issue:
1- How long and how interesting is the content on those pages?
2- How many links are pointing to them?
3- Are pages with high internal traffic being left out?
4- Were any of them indexed just for a short period of time? On what query? 
5- Are there "better" pages on your website that resolve user questions on Google search, rather than the UGC pages?

Hope it helps,
Best luck.
Gaston

[akashkandari]

Thank you Gaston. I get what you saying. It was helpful.