Gary Illyes from Google stated that if a URL has a standing inside Google Search Console as “URL is unknown to Google” that implies that URL is actually unknown to Google and has zero precedence inside Google Search methods.
The query was from Adam Gent who posted on LinkedIn – Adam requested:
Is it affordable to imagine that pages with the “URL is unknown to Google” index state in GSC have the bottom crawl precedence in your system?
I’ve seen that beforehand listed pages which turn into not listed finally get given this indexing state. If nothing modifications.
You have talked about how listed pages can moved to ‘crawled – presently not listed’. And I questioned if the URL is unknown to Google and is simply the final cease on the backside of the barrel lane.
Gary Illyes from Google replied:
These haven’t any precedence; they don’t seem to be identified to Google (Search) so inherently they haven’t any precedence in any respect. URLs transfer between states as we acquire indicators for them, and on this explicit case the indicators informed a narrative that made our methods “neglect” that URL exists. I suppose you may say it really fell out the barrel altogether.
I imply, I suppose this makes logical sense…
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
