Google posted in the data anomalies page and on Twitter that it has updated the coverage report within Google Search Console and as a result, you may see more indexed pages being reported as of December 15, 2019. In short, some pages that were "Crawled - currently not indexed" are now known to be indexed.
Here is what this site's report looks like, notice the spike in indexed pages on December 15th (click to enlarge):
Google wrote "The Index Coverage report can now more accurately report on indexed pages. Because of this, some pages that were Crawled - currently not indexed are now known to be indexed. As a result, you may see a transfer of pages from Excluded to Valid state. This does not reflect any changes in your site, but a more accurate accounting system."
From Dec 15, the Index Coverage report can more accurately report on indexed pages. Because of this, some pages that were "Crawled - currently not indexed" are now known to be indexed. You'll see a chart notification in this report. pic.twitter.com/RLgmo6x8jX
— Google Webmasters (@googlewmc) December 18, 2019
It makes you wonder - I mean - here, I'll quote AJ:
So ... the report has been wrong for quite some time. Is it correct now? Or is it just less wrong? #seo https://t.co/UmjEPi42NF
— AJ Kohn (@ajkohn) December 18, 2019
In any event - if you see the change and your clients go - what is up - you can show them this.
Here is what others in the SEO community are seeing:
Here you have :) pic.twitter.com/LgZPei6VlE
— Aleyda Solis (@aleyda) December 18, 2019
Not in all project pic.twitter.com/iVdRFowKiC
— Heba Said (@HebaSaidSEO) December 18, 2019
Yep pic.twitter.com/V1NtKdo6Jx
— Dave Smart (@davewsmart) December 18, 2019
Here we go. pic.twitter.com/wfwNS5s7dg
— Michael Karg (@m_karg) December 18, 2019
Yes, visible for all projects pic.twitter.com/qFcoOdj6qX
— Ramesh Singh (@ramesh_s_bisht) December 18, 2019
Biggest jump was on a sub-domain with chronic XML sitemap issues, so "crawled - currently not indexed are now known to be indexed" would make sense: it saw a jump of over a 1.2M added to valid. pic.twitter.com/MzM5gMJjrg
— Jason Lax (@jasonlax) December 19, 2019
Here's what the change in the Coverage report can look like. A drop in "crawled, not indexed" with a corresponding increase in pages indexed. Great to see that Google can now more accurately report on indexed pages. That's clearly a good thing. :) @googlewmc pic.twitter.com/yWWVDQEMMq
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) December 18, 2019
Forum discussion at Twitter.
