This note preserves the original context of the Facebook post. Some tools, interfaces, and external links may have changed.
When encountering “Crawled, but not yet indexed”, the gut reaction is usually to submit the same URL over and over again.
This 2021 post serves as a reminder that the problem doesn’t have to be just with that page itself, but can also be with the entire website.
The original case mentioned that a certain website had been hacked, resulting in a large number of implanted pages.
Therefore, the post proposes a reasonable investigation direction: in addition to checking the target page, you should also check whether the website has a large number of abnormal pages, blank pages, spam external links, or traces of black hat operations.
The point here is not to claim that a certain factor will definitely cause non-indexing, but to remind SEO troubleshooting not to just focus on a single URL.
Website structure, content quality, technical errors and security incidents can all contribute to broader problems.
This is a historical note that preserves the context of the discussion at that time.
Search engine reporting and indexing systems will continue to change, and actual diagnosis should still be based on the current official documents and Search Console data.
Links mentioned in the original post
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