Noindex Checker
Find out whether a page is blocked from Google — including by an X-Robots-Tag header that never appears in view-source.
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What is Noindex Checker?
A page can be kept out of Google in two places, and only one of them is visible when you view the source.
The meta robots tag sits in the HTML where anyone can see it. The X-Robots-Tag HTTP header does exactly the same job, is set at the server or the CDN, and appears nowhere in the markup — which is why a page that looks perfectly indexable can be quietly excluded for months. This checker reads both. It also handles the case that catches people out most often: directives are per-crawler, so a reassuring <meta name="robots" content="all"> can sit directly above a googlebot-specific noindex, and the specific one wins. Finally it keeps noindex and nofollow apart, because they are different instructions and only one of them removes you from the index.
How to use Noindex Checker
- 1
Enter the page
A full URL, not just the domain — directives are set per page and a template can differ from the homepage.
- 2
Read where the directive came from
The result says whether a block is in the meta tag or the header. That tells you whether to edit the template or the server config.
- 3
Check for a crawler-specific override
If a generic rule allows indexing and a named crawler is blocked, the named one wins for that crawler.
- 4
Treat nofollow separately
A nofollowed page is still indexable; it just passes no link equity onward. That is deliberate on a login page and usually accidental elsewhere.
Everything this tool
does for you
- Reads the robots meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header together
- Handles per-crawler directives and tells you which one wins
- Understands "none" as noindex plus nofollow
- Distinguishes noindex from nofollow
- Names where each directive is set
- Free, no signup, no daily limit
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Frequently asked questions
This tool fixed one thing.
Now fix the whole site.
Our scanner runs 240+ checks across 10 audit areas, ranks every issue by the score points it costs, and hands you the code to paste.
Run a free audit- Checks the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag header
- Catches a crawler-specific noindex hiding under a generic rule
- Separates noindex from nofollow
- Explains where the directive is set, so you know what to edit
- Free, no account, no daily limit