Google Search Console Page Indexing Issue
Hello everyone, I’m excited to join this community. I’m running into some issues with Google Search Console and indexing. According to Google, my site has about 5,200 pages. After making a lot of changes, I should be down to fewer than 3,000 pages. Many of the old ones were either 301 redirected to another page on my site or to one of my other websites. I need Google to recognize that those pages no longer exist and remove them from the index. On top of that, I have a large number of 404s, “Crawled, currently not indexed,” and “Discovered, currently not indexed.” In total, about 4,000 pages are not being indexed because of these issues. I’ve already fixed them and submitted for validation multiple times, but I’m stuck. Many pages have been in “Pending” for a long time, and some also say “Validation failed” even though I’ve fixed them and resubmitted. What should I do at this point? For example, I have 1,100 pages that are 404. I know I probably missed a few, but the majority should be resolved. I just don’t want to have to go through them one by one again.