: Crawling vs Indexing I am trying to do some SEO activites for my website www.giftyourhubby.com When i looked into google search console. I found site is not indexed. But i could list the site

@Vandalay111

In my experience, the 'Index status' is reporting fairly accurate numbers. Especially when taking into account that a 'site:www.giftyourhubby.com' query on Google also returns zero results, I would say that we can be pretty certain that your site indeed isn't indexed at the moment.

Have you received any messages from Google stating a reason for this? When I crawl/analyze your website it isn't showing any red flags in terms of not-getting-indexed (meta noindex, robots.txt, overly weird technical setup stuff, etc.).

Have you perhaps used another setup (for instance https, or without www) in the past? Or is there any reason to assume this domain has received a severe Google penalty recently?

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@Alves908

Any numbers it gives you will be imprecise. This is very much by design! The search console often has 'fuzzed' numbers and doesn't update immediately. There's a 2-3 day lag on things like search analytics.

Use it for guidance only. In this case, once it says you've got some pages indexed you can at least be sure it's indexed something. But just because it says '0' doesn't mean it hasn't indexed something in the past few days.

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