Common reasons a page is not indexed or not appearing in Google search

1. Page is blocked
   • robots.txt
   • noindex meta tag
   • X-Robots-Tag header
2. Canonical issue
   • Page points to another URL:
   <link rel="canonical" href="another-page">
3. Page is discovered but not indexed
   • Thin/duplicate content
   • Low-quality AI content
   • Very little text
   • Duplicate titles/descriptions
4. Crawled – currently not indexed
   • Google crawled it but decided not to keep it
   • Usually quality/internal-link issue
5. Not in sitemap
   • Add URL to sitemap.xml
   • Resubmit sitemap in Search Console
6. New page
   • Sometimes takes days/weeks
7. Poor internal linking
   • Page not linked from homepage/category pages
8. JavaScript rendering issue
   • Content loads only after JS
   • Google may not see content properly
9. Soft 404
   • Page looks empty/useless to Google
10. Server or speed issue

• 5xx errors
• Slow hosting
• Timeout during crawl

You can also check quickly:

site:yourdomain.com/page-url

If nothing appears, Google likely has not indexed it.