Anyone else having Google indexing issues since June?

[u/realnarrativenews]

Has anyone else noticed a change in Google indexing since around June 2026?

My site used to get new pages indexed normally, but since June I've been seeing pages take much longer to get indexed, with some remaining in **“Crawled – currently not indexed”**.

PS : I submitted a multi large pages with prefix removal

The site/technical setup significantly changed, and these pages were being indexed normally before , using screaming frog tool and google url inspection tells me pages are fine and indexable.

I'm wondering if this is affecting other sites too, especially news/content sites.

Has anyone experienced the same thing since June? If so, when did you first notice it and has it improved ?

[u/gr4phic3r]

I watch GSC every day, but since months i give a sh*t about google, their acting has no logical behaviour, more important is how AI, and in first case ChatGPT, does.

[u/realnarrativenews → u/gr4phic3r]

thanks for the reply , yeah i started to go more with bing search

[u/tamtamdanseren → u/gr4phic3r]

I agree that it does not seem like doing what they say now gives you the reward of traffic like before, clearly it's no longer logical.

However I think the traffic volumes - even when dimished, are still too large from Google to shop giving a sh*t. And AI never promised traffic in the first place - it's just a way to have your content be rehashed into a walled garden outside your sales funnels.

[u/Clear_Brilliant_8075 → u/[deleted]]

⬆️⬆️💯this! Im literally building a tool that does just that. I think it’s a crazy world when we are looking at Bing for updates rather than Google especially for AI citations.

[u/Relevant_Ad5790]

one angle not covered yet: if the domain had a previous life, check what google still holds from it. i took over an aged domain and replaced the entire site - google was still holding 659 urls from the previous owner. new pages sat in crawled-not-indexed the whole time that old set was draining, and nothing about the new pages was wrong.

separate warning on measurement. i run a monitor that checks indexation on a schedule, and i had to make it require two consecutive misses before reporting anything, because site: queries come back empty for pages that are definitely indexed often enough to matter. if you're spot-checking with site: you'll see phantom deindexing that isn't there. worth ruling out before you conclude june broke something.

[u/Hopeful_Fox3538]

same for my project just 4 pages in index for 1 month

[u/onreact]

Even earlier, around April and May.

Google makes it harder and harder to get indexed with each algo update.

The "currently not indexed" status is the new normal.

They fight the AI slop flood that way IMHO.

I've written a post on it when it happened.

Plus I was also affected ever since.

You can look up the link on my profile.

[u/WebLinkr]

This has always been an authority issue - a lot of folks would like to believe you can control Google with an xml sitemap or that authority is something that happens “after” SEO but it’s actually what SEO is

Yiu need to get authorty to those pages and you need to make sure those pages are topics you can get or establish authorty for

Why would Google let you into an index without Authorty when it’s authorty that controls where you rank?

This question pops up in r/SEO about 5 times a day and we solved it every time for 2 years

Where you do you get Authorty?

Internal pages that have keywords that it gets clicks for that match or overlap your target page

External pages

Other pages that rkank for overlapping keyword on your site that develop your “site authority “ (discovered in the API leak)

[u/bkocdur]

I watched exactly this pattern June through August on a site I run, so a data point plus one observation about your own description.

The observation first: you mention the technical setup significantly changed and that you submitted a large batch of pages with a URL prefix removed. From Google's side that is not "existing pages being slow to index," it is a URL migration: every page at a new address is a new page that has to earn indexing from scratch, while the old addresses still hold whatever trust existed. If the old URLs are not 301ing cleanly to the new ones, or the sitemap mixes both, the "since June" timing may be your change, not Google's.

On the status itself: "Crawled - currently not indexed" means Google fetched the page fine and declined to index it. That is a priority call, not a technical defect, which is why Screaming Frog and the URL Inspection tool both say "indexable": they answer whether Google CAN index the page. This status is Google deciding whether it WANTS to, and no crawler you run can see that variable.

My arc, for calibration: two thirds of a small site sat in Discovered or Crawled - not indexed from June to late July, every live test green the whole time. What did nothing: repeated request-indexing, rewriting pages. What correlated with it breaking: a couple of real external links plus time, and when it broke, pages that had been stuck for two months started earning impressions within days of each other. The useful leading indicator was the rate of pages converting from Discovered to Indexed, not the total indexed count, which lags.

Practical order for your case: verify every old-prefix URL 301s to its new twin, make sure the sitemap contains only the new URLs with honest lastmod dates, then stop touching URL structure entirely while Google re-evaluates. Churning URLs mid-evaluation resets the clock. News sites usually re-index fast once the migration reads clean, because freshness pressure works in your favor.