Noindex Checker

A page that should be in Google but is not often has a forgotten noindex tag, a header added by a plugin, a robots.txt rule or a canonical tag pointing somewhere else. The Noindex Checker looks at all of them in one go: the HTTP status and redirects, robots meta tags for all search engines and for Googlebot and Bingbot, the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, robots.txt for Googlebot, and the canonical tag. You get a clear verdict and an explanation for each signal.

How to use Noindex Checker

1. Enter the page address.
2. Click Check.
3. Anything marked Blocks keeps the page out of search results; fix those first.

When it comes in handy

• Finding out why a page is missing from Google.
• Checking that staging, thank-you and admin pages are kept out of search results.
• Checking a site after a launch or migration.

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between noindex and robots.txt?

robots.txt stops crawling. noindex stops indexing, but it only works if the page can be crawled so the tag can be seen. Do not use both on the same page.

Where does X-Robots-Tag come from?

It is an HTTP header set by the server, a CDN or a plugin. It works for PDFs and other files that cannot have a meta tag.