Greg I used to agree with you . not indexed pages shouldn’t be effecting our seo. But in reality now i suspect it is effecting our stores . As for google algorithm updates even the best seo experts wont fully know whats going on with that update for a while as they see results come in. Who knows maybe not indexed pages would of been no issue last year but this year its an issue.
What i want to know is why “not indexed” pages count keeps going up ??? are those wpm pages still being generated? Take a look at the screen shot i just took of my GSC.
Just in the past few days it went up by 3k.
Anyone else experiencing this ?