URLs dropping from index (Crawled, currently not indexed)

[iHasco]

I've noticed that some of our URLs have recently dropped completely out of Google's index.

When carrying out a URL inspection in GSC, it comes up with 'Crawled, currently not indexed'.

Strangely, I've also noticed that under referring page it says 'None detected', which is definitely not the case.

I wonder if it could be something to do with the following? https://www.seroundtable.com/google-ranking-index-drop-30192.html - It seems to be a bug affecting quite a few people.

Here are a few examples of the URLs that have gone missing:

https://www.ihasco.co.uk/courses/detail/sexual-harassment-awareness-training

https://www.ihasco.co.uk/courses/detail/conflict-resolution-training

https://www.ihasco.co.uk/courses/detail/prevent-duty-training

Any help here would be massively appreciated!

[DmitriiK]

Hi there,

The third URL you are referencing, is actually indexed:

https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDY4N18xNDgzNjgzMA

As for "crawled, not indexed" - in most cases it happens because of one and only reason - Google is seeing your page as thin content, not worth being indexed. Typically it happens on bigger sites with a lot of similar pages. In your case, you got many courses, with exactly same structure. So, if the content is not completely different, then Google might deem it not worthy.

As for the bug you referenced - did your URLs drop off the index exactly at the time when this issue has been discovered? (aka within the last week?).

Do you have any cannibalization happening?

To me it looks like that's the case. If I do this search: "site:https://www.ihasco.co.uk/ Sexual Harassment Training course"

There are many pages that are indexed and are ranking: https://dmitrii-regexseo.tinytake.com/tt/NDY4NDcwN18xNDgzNjg4Mg

So, basically, you have pages that are more authoritative with similar content. Therefore your courses pages are dropping as thin content.

I would recommend doing some internal linking optimization to tell Google what is actually important. Look in GSC for internal links metrics.

Hope this helps.