In the hierarchy of web crawlers, there is Googlebot, there is Bingbot, and then there is OpenClaw. While traditional search engine bots are polite librarians cataloging books, OpenClaw is a voracious scholar tearing pages out to build a new compendium.

OpenClaw is an Autonomous Research Agent. It doesn’t just index URLs; it traverses the web to synthesize knowledge graphs. If your site blocks OpenClaw, you aren’t just missing from a search engine results page; you are missing from the collective intelligence of the Agentic Web.

“PageRank” is the zombie concept of SEO. It refuses to die, shambling through every forum thread and conference slide deck for 25 years. But in 2025, when checking your “Crawled - currently not indexed” report, invoking PageRank is worse than useless—it is misleading.

The classical definition of PageRank was a probability distribution: the likelihood that a random surfer would land on a page. Today, the metric that matters is Indexing Probability.

There is a comforting lie that SEOs tell themselves when they see the dreaded “Crawled - currently not indexed” status in Google Search Console (GSC). The lie is: “My content just needs to be better.”

We audit the page. We add more H2s. We add a video. We “optimize” the meta description. And then we wait. And it stays not indexed.

The uncomfortable truth of 2025 is that indexing is no longer a meritocracy of quality; it is a calculation of marginal utility. Google is not rejecting your page because it is “bad.” Google is rejecting your page because indexing it costs more in electricity and storage than it will ever generate in ad revenue.