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Page score
Indexable74/100
32 passed · 9 warnings · 2 errors
Can Google index this page?
Yes, it can be indexed
No noindex tag, no noindex header, no robots.txt block, and the page returns a success status.
robots.txt: https://www.example.com/robots.txt (rules for all bots)
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noindex is an instruction that tells search engines not to show a page in their results. It can be set in a robots meta tag in the HTML or in an X-Robots-Tag HTTP header sent by the server.
It is useful for thank-you pages, internal search results, and staging sites. It is a problem when it ships by accident, because the page quietly disappears from Google with no error.
<!-- In the HTML --> <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> <meta name="googlebot" content="noindex"> <!-- In the HTTP response header --> X-Robots-Tag: noindex
robots.txt controls crawling, and noindex controls indexing. They are not the same. If robots.txt blocks a page, Google can't read it, so it never sees the noindex tag, and the URL can still show up in results without a description.
To remove a page from Google, allow crawling and use noindex. To save crawl budget on pages that don't matter, use robots.txt. This noindex checker tests both for the same URL.
Work through these in order.
Delete noindex from the meta tag or the server header, and remove any robots.txt rule that blocks the URL.
The final URL must return 200 OK. Fix 404s and server errors, and link straight to the final URL to avoid redirect chains.
In Google Search Console, inspect the URL and request indexing. Then give it a few days.
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Enter the URL above. The checker reads the robots meta tags and the X-Robots-Tag header, checks robots.txt, and tells you whether Google can index the page.
It is an HTTP response header that carries the same instructions as the robots meta tag. It is set by the server or CDN, so it doesn't appear in the page's HTML, and it works for PDFs and images too.
No. Blocking a URL in robots.txt stops crawling, but the URL can still be indexed from links. To remove it, allow crawling and add noindex.
Google has to recrawl the page first. That can take days or weeks. You can speed it up with the URL Inspection tool in Search Console.
It checks the rules that apply to Googlebot. Most search engines follow the same noindex rules, but robots.txt can have different rules for each bot.
Yes. We save the URL you check, the results, and any error for 12 months, with your IP address and approximate location, so we can find what goes wrong and improve the checker. If you use the AI fix plan, the list of failed checks and the page's title, description, and H1 are sent to our AI provider to write the plan. See our privacy policy.