Indexing
The stage where the engine parses what it downloaded, compares it against everything it already holds, and decides whether the page has earned a permanent place in the database.
Analogy Mental model
The cataloguer at the acquisitions desk. A duplicate copy, a misprint or a book of blank pages goes straight to the shredder. Only what survives inspection gets a call number and a slot in the cabinet.
In practice What you actually do
Live inside the Page Indexing report. Discovered, currently not indexed means the crawler knows the URL and has not bothered to fetch it, usually a budget or priority signal. Crawled, currently not indexed means it read the page and declined, which is a verdict on the page itself.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Resubmitting a rejected URL changes nothing, because the decision was made on content. The fix has to be content: thin pages merged into a stronger one, spun text rewritten from evidence, or a cluster consolidated instead of multiplied.
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