In this article we explain the 'crawled - previously indexed' indexing state.
What is 'crawled - previously indexed'?
The 'crawled - previously indexed' indexing status is a unique index coverage state in Indexing Insight.
How is 'crawled - previously indexed' calculated?
Pages with the 'crawled - previously indexed' status represent pages which have been actively removed from Google's search results.
Indexing Insight detects when an inspected page with 'submitted and indexed' changes to 'crawled - currently not indexed'. And our tool labels the page with the new index coverage state 'crawled - previously indexed'.
We then group pages which have the 'crawled - previously indexed' status into a report and calculate the total number of pages with this status each day to create the timeline graph.
Why should I use the 'crawled - previously indexed' report?
The 'crawled - previously indexed' report helps you pin point exactly which indexed pages are being actively removed by Google's index.
You are no longer limited by the 1,000 row limit in Google Search Console.
Also, Indexing Insight allows you to segment the data by web property so that you can view exactly which areas of the website are being actively deindexed by Google.
You can also filter the data table by:
Page URL
Canonical
New Page Detection
Indexing state change
For example you can filter on pages indexing state change's happened in the last 24 hours...
...so you can see a list of pages who were actively removed from Google's search results in the last 24 hours (i.e. labelled as 'crawled - previously indexed').
