Alternate page with proper canonical tag usually means Google Search Console has found an alternate or duplicate URL that correctly points to another page as its canonical. Google has indexed the canonical page instead, which is normally the intended result. So the first question is not how to get the alternate URL indexed. It is

Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt means Google has a URL in its index even though the site’s robots.txt file prevents Googlebot from crawling that URL. It is not evidence that Google ignored robots.txt. The block controls crawling, while indexing can still happen when Google already knows the URL or discovers it from links and other

When Google Search Console reports Duplicate without user-selected canonical, Google has grouped the inspected URL with another duplicate or very similar URL and selected a different URL as the canonical representative. The inspected URL is therefore not the version Google chose to index. That does not automatically mean something is broken. The useful question is

Discovered – currently not indexed means Google knows a URL exists but has not crawled it yet. Google Search Console does not tell you from this label alone whether the delay comes from one page, the site’s crawl conditions, or the wider set of URLs Google knows about. Google’s official Page indexing documentation adds useful

Crawled – currently not indexed means Google has crawled a URL but has not indexed it. Google’s Page indexing report documentation adds an important limit: the page may or may not be indexed later, and there is no need to resubmit the URL for crawling simply because it has this status. That makes the first

An SEO strategy document is the working record of the decisions that shape search work. It should explain what the site is trying to achieve, which evidence supports the direction, what the team has decided to create, change, consolidate, protect or defer, and what would justify revisiting those decisions later. It is not the SEO