In Google Search Console, did you ever see the “discovered but currently not indexed” notice regarding your index coverage status report? Google says in their help document that it might be related to an overloaded server, but Google’s John Mueller says otherwise in this video hangout.

At the 11:17 mark, John Mueller from Google answered what it means if a nice portion of your URLs are labeled with the “Discovered – currently not indexed.” Despite what it says in the help document, which is:

John said either it can be about auto-generating too many URLs by accident, a poor internal linking structure or about reducing the number of pages to make the overall site stronger. In most cases I’ve seen, it was about reducing the number of pages to make the site stronger overall.

Here is the transcript, it goes on pretty long:

Here is the video embed:

So if you have ever run into this, how did you solve the problem?

Forum discussion at Google+.