How to fix “Blogger post not indexed” in Google Search Console (2026 guide)

You hit Publish, waited a few days, searched for your own title, and found nothing. So you opened Google Search Console and saw "Discovered – currently not indexed" or "Crawled – currently not indexed" next to your post. Every guide told you to click Request Indexing and wait. You did, and nothing changed.

This guide works in a different order. First you find out whether you even have a problem, because many Blogger "errors" are completely normal. Then you check the settings that silently block indexing. Then you hand your own screenshots and data to an AI assistant and let it point at the exact cause. Finally you fix the real reason, which for most small blogs is weak content value and missing internal links, not a technical bug.

One honest note before we start: nobody can force Google to index a page, and no trick works every time. What you can do is remove every blocker and give Google a reason to care about your page. Search Console wording changes now and then, so a label on your screen may differ slightly from the ones below.

First: is it really a problem? Normal Blogger statuses

Open Search Console, go to Indexing, then Pages, and scroll to "Why pages aren't indexed". Blogger creates many URLs that Google is supposed to ignore, so a long list of "not indexed" pages is not automatically bad. Only worry about URLs of real posts and pages you want people to find.

Status in Search Console	What it usually means on Blogger	Action
Alternate page with proper canonical tag	Often the mobile version of a post (the URL ends in ?m=1) pointing to the main URL	None
Page with redirect	?m=1 or ?m=0 versions, or an old URL you redirected	None
Blocked by robots.txt (URLs starting /search)	Blogger blocks search and label pages by default	None, in most cases
Not found (404)	A deleted post or a post whose permalink you changed	Only if the URL should be live
Discovered – currently not indexed (a real post)	Google knows the URL but has not crawled it yet	Needs action
Crawled – currently not indexed (a real post)	Google read the page and chose not to index it for now	Needs action
Duplicate, Google chose different canonical	Google thinks another URL is the main version of this content	Needs action
Soft 404	The page looks empty or error-like to Google	Needs action

Step 1: Ask Google about the exact URL

Paste the full post URL into the bar at the top of Search Console. This is the URL Inspection tool, and it tells you what Google knows about that one page. If it says "URL is on Google", the page is indexed and your real problem is ranking, not indexing. If it says "URL is not on Google", read the reason underneath it.

Then click "Test live URL". When the test finishes, look at the lines "Crawl allowed?", "Page fetch" and "Indexing allowed?". If "Indexing allowed?" says No, a noindex rule is blocking the page and Step 2 will find it. If everything says Yes, your page is technically fine and the cause is priority or quality.

Step 2: The Blogger settings that silently block indexing

Check 1: The per-post robots setting

Open the post in the editor and look at Post settings in the right panel. If you see "Custom robots tags", make sure "all" is selected and "noindex" is not. One accidental tick here removes a single post from Google, and it is easy to miss.

Check 2: The blog-wide robots header tags

Go to Settings, then Crawlers and indexing, and look at "Enable custom robots header tags". A safe setup is "all" for the home page, "noindex" for archive and search pages, and "all" for posts and pages. A very common mistake is setting posts to noindex while testing a theme and forgetting to undo it.

Check 3: Your robots.txt

Open yourblog.blogspot.com/robots.txt in a browser. The default Blogger file blocks only /search and includes your sitemap line. Watch out for a rule like Disallow: / or Disallow: /2026/, because post URLs contain the year and month and a rule like that blocks every one of them.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml

Check 4: Your theme's head section

Open the live post, press Ctrl+U (Cmd+Option+U on Mac) to view the source, then press Ctrl+F and search for "noindex". Search and archive pages are supposed to have it, but a normal post should not. Also search for "canonical" and confirm the link points to the post's own URL. If you use a custom theme and the canonical tag is missing, someone may have removed the line that includes Blogger's default head content from the theme. Put it back.

Check 5: Draft, scheduled or renamed posts

A scheduled post is not public until its time passes. If you changed the permalink after publishing, the old URL now returns a 404, so inspect the new URL instead and expect the old one to drop out.

Check 6: Search Console is watching the right property

If you switched themes, your verification meta tag may have disappeared with the old theme, and Search Console quietly loses access. Add the tag back to the new theme or verify again. If you moved to a custom domain, use the property for the domain you actually use now, and make sure you are not looking at the http:// version.

Step 3: Let AI diagnose your exact problem

AI cannot see your Search Console, so it is only as good as the evidence you give it. The method is simple: take a screenshot or copy the data, paste it into the prompt below, and send both to your AI assistant. Crop out your email and account name first. Each prompt tells the AI not to guess and to ask you for missing information, which keeps the answers honest.

Prompt A: Read my whole Pages report (screenshot)

You are a technical SEO specialist who knows Blogger (Blogspot) very well.
I'm attaching a screenshot of my Google Search Console "Pages" (Page indexing) report.

My blog: [yourblog.blogspot.com or custom domain]
Blog age: [e.g. 2 months] | Published posts: [number] | Posts per week: [number]
Topic: [e.g. Blogger tutorials]

Do this, in order:
1. List every "Why pages aren't indexed" reason you can read, with the page count.
2. For each reason, say whether it is NORMAL for a Blogger blog (for example ?m=1 mobile URLs or /search pages) or NEEDS ACTION.
3. Rank the ones that need action by how much they could hurt my traffic.
4. For the top 2, give exact click-by-click steps inside Blogger or Search Console.
5. Tell me what extra information you need from me, and exactly how to get it, before you can be sure.

Rules: do not guess what you cannot see in the screenshot. If something is uncertain, say "not sure" and tell me how to check it. Do not suggest paid tools, indexing "tricks" or buying backlinks.

Prompt B: Diagnose one stuck post (screenshot)

I'm attaching a screenshot of Search Console's URL Inspection result for ONE post. If I have it, I'm also attaching the "Test live URL" result.
Post URL: [paste]
Published on: [date] | Target keyword: [keyword]

1. Explain in plain language what the status means.
2. Does this look like a technical block (noindex, robots, canonical, redirect) or a quality/priority issue? Explain how you can tell from the screenshot.
3. Give me a fix checklist for this URL, in order, and how long to wait after each step before judging the result.
4. List the 3 things you would check next if the screenshot is not enough.

Prompt C: Check my page source for hidden blocks (copy and paste)

Below is the top part of the page source of one of my Blogger posts (I copied from the first line down to where the body starts). Analyze it for indexing problems.

Check for: robots meta tags (noindex, nofollow, none), the canonical tag (does it match this post's own URL?), duplicate canonical tags, a missing title or meta description, and anything my custom theme may have removed.

Give me a table with these columns: Item | What I found | OK or Problem | How to fix it in a Blogger theme.
If you cannot see something, say so instead of assuming.

[PASTE PAGE SOURCE HERE]

Prompt D: Check robots.txt and sitemap

Here are the contents of my Blogger robots.txt and the first 30 lines of my sitemap.xml.
Tell me if anything blocks my posts (for example a Disallow rule that matches post URLs like /2026/10/...), if the Sitemap line is correct, and if my newest posts appear in the sitemap. Explain each rule in plain English and give me a corrected version if one is needed. Remember that Blogger blocks /search by default and that is normal.

robots.txt:
[PASTE]

sitemap.xml (first 30 lines):
[PASTE]

Prompt E: Fix "Crawled – currently not indexed" content

Act as a skeptical search quality reviewer AND an editor. My post shows "Crawled – currently not indexed".
Target search: "[keyword]" | Who is searching: [type of person] | Their real problem: [problem]

Review the post below honestly:
1. Do the first 100 words answer the searcher's question directly?
2. What does this post say that most other pages on this topic already say? List it.
3. What original value is missing (my own screenshots, my own data, a real example, a mistake I made, a tested solution)? Tell me exactly what to add and where.
4. Find thin sections, filler and AI-sounding sentences. Quote each one and rewrite it.
5. Does it overlap with another post on my blog (titles below)? Should I merge them?
6. Score it 1-10 for "deserves to be indexed" and list the 5 changes that would raise the score the most.

Do not invent facts or statistics. If you suggest adding data, tell me how I can collect it myself.

My other post titles: [paste list]
POST: [paste the full post text]

Prompt F: Build an internal linking plan

Here is the URL and title of a post that is not indexed, followed by a list of my other posts with their URLs.
Suggest the 5 best existing posts to link FROM (they should be indexed already and closely related), the natural anchor text for each (not keyword-stuffed), and the sentence where the link would fit. Also suggest 3 posts the stuck post should link TO.

Stuck post: [URL + title]
My posts: [paste a list of titles and URLs]

Prompt G: Sort a big list of not-indexed URLs

Below are URLs from a Search Console export of pages that are not indexed on my Blogger blog (in Search Console, open a reason and use the export button at the top right).
Group them by type: real posts, static pages, label or search URLs, mobile (?m=1) URLs, archive URLs, other. Tell me which groups are normal for Blogger and ignorable, and which are real posts I should work on. For the real posts, list them in priority order using the words in each URL and suggest whether to improve, merge or leave each one alone.

[PASTE URLS HERE]

Treat the AI's answer as a strong second opinion, not a ruling. It can be wrong, and Google alone decides what gets indexed. Before you change anything, check each suggested setting yourself, and never delete posts or change permalinks just because an AI said so unless you understand what will happen to the old URL.

Step 4: Fix it based on the status you have

If it says "Discovered – currently not indexed"

Google has seen your URL but has not decided it is worth crawling yet. For a small blog this is usually a priority problem, not a bug. Give the page a reason to be crawled: link to it from your home page, your most popular posts and a related post. Google follows links from pages it already trusts, and an orphan page with no links pointing to it is easy to ignore. Also submit your sitemap, which we cover below, and focus on publishing fewer, stronger posts rather than many thin ones.

If it says "Crawled – currently not indexed"

Google read the page and was not convinced it adds something new. Google's own guidance is that you do not need to resubmit a page in this state, so improve it instead. Use Prompt E and add things only you can add: your own screenshots, a real example from your blog, a mistake you made, a result you measured. Make the first paragraph answer the question. Make sure the post is not a near copy of another post on your blog or of another site. When you finish a meaningful rewrite, request indexing once. Changing only the date does not count as an update.

If it says "Duplicate, Google chose different canonical"

Google believes another URL is the main version. Check whether you published the same content twice, copied text from somewhere else, or wrote two posts about nearly the same keyword. If two of your own posts overlap, keep the stronger one, merge the best parts into it, and redirect the weaker URL using Blogger's custom redirects (Settings, then Errors and redirects).

If it says "Soft 404"

The page looks empty or broken to Google. Open the post in a private window and check that the text actually shows up, and that the body is not mostly images or content loaded by script. Then run Prompt C on the page source.

Step 5: Help Google find and trust the page

Submit your sitemap once

In Search Console open Sitemaps, type sitemap.xml next to your blog address, and press Submit. Blogger lists about 500 posts per sitemap page, so if you have more than that, also submit sitemap.xml?page=2. Google no longer accepts sitemap "pings", so do not waste time on tools that promise them.

Request indexing, once

Inspect the URL and click Request indexing after your fixes are done. There is a limited daily quota, and clicking again and again does not speed anything up. Request once, then wait.

Earn real discovery

Share the post where real people in your topic already hang out, and link to it from your other posts. A few genuine visits and links help Google find you. Buying backlinks or paying for "instant indexing" services does not, and it can put your whole blog at risk.

A realistic 14-day plan

Day 0: remove blockers

Run the six checks in Step 2 and the live URL test from Step 1. Fix anything that says noindex, blocked or wrong canonical.

Day 1: connect and request

Add three internal links from indexed posts, submit your sitemap, and request indexing one time.

Days 3 to 5: improve the content

Run Prompt E, add your own screenshots and examples, and tighten the intro. Keep a small log with the URL, the date, the status and what you changed, so you can see what works.

Day 7: re-inspect

Inspect the URL again. If it is still "Crawled", the content needs a deeper rewrite or a merge with an overlapping post.

Day 14: decide

If it is still not indexed, write one or two strong supporting posts on the same topic and link them together. New sites can take weeks to earn crawl priority, and the topic cluster is usually what moves the needle.

Mistakes that make it worse

• Clicking Request indexing every day for the same URL.
• Deleting the post and republishing it, which creates a new URL and throws away its history.
• Changing permalinks after publishing without a redirect.
• Setting everything to noindex "to be safe" and forgetting to undo it.
• Publishing dozens of AI-written posts with no original input.
• Paying for backlinks or "instant indexing" services.

Frequently asked questions

How long does Blogger take to index a new post?

It can range from a few hours to several weeks. Established blogs with a record of useful posts are crawled faster, and brand new blogs usually wait longer.

Is Blogger worse than WordPress for indexing?

No. Google does not penalize the platform. Blogger just has fewer settings, and people often misconfigure the ones it has, especially robots tags and themes.

My post is indexed but I can't find it in search. Why?

Indexed does not mean ranked. Open the Performance report in Search Console, check whether the page gets any impressions, and search your exact title in quotes to confirm it exists. A new page may rank very low at first.

Do I need a custom domain to get indexed?

No. A blogspot.com address can be indexed and ranked. A custom domain helps with branding, and it does not replace good content.

Can I trust AI to diagnose this?

Use it as a second pair of eyes. It is good at reading screenshots, spotting patterns and organizing a fix list. It cannot see inside Google's systems, so verify each suggestion against what Search Console actually reports.

Your final checklist

• The post URL is public, not draft or scheduled.
• No noindex in the post settings, blog settings or page source.
• robots.txt does not block your post URLs.
• The canonical tag points to the post itself.
• The sitemap is submitted and lists the post.
• Two or three indexed pages link to it.
• The first paragraph answers the question, and the post has something original in it.
• You requested indexing once, after the fixes.

Did one of these fixes work for you, or are you stuck on a status I didn't cover? Leave a comment with the exact status text from Search Console and what you already tried, and I'll help you work out the next step.