Enter a page address to see whether a noindex rule keeps it out of search results. Free, instant, no signup.
A free checker for whether a page is blocked from Google by noindex. Enter a URL and it reads the page's robots meta tags and its X-Robots-Tag HTTP header, and tells you whether a noindex rule applies to Google. No signup, no email.
A noindex rule can come from two places: a robots meta tag in the page's head, or an X-Robots-Tag header sent with the response. The header is the only way to noindex a PDF or an image. Both can name one crawler, such as googlebot, or all of them.
The check reports a rule as applying to Google when it names all crawlers or googlebot. A rule that names only another crawler is listed but does not count as a block for Google.
Enter the page's address above. The tool fetches the page, reads the robots meta tags and the X-Robots-Tag header, and says whether any rule tells Google not to index it. You can also view the page source and search for noindex, but that misses the HTTP header.
Other causes are common: the page was never crawled, it returns an error, it is a duplicate of another page, Google judged it low value, or robots.txt blocks crawling. Google Search Console's page indexing report names the reason for a specific URL.
No. A robots.txt Disallow stops crawling, and a blocked page can still appear in results without a description. Noindex is the rule that removes a page from results, and Google must be able to crawl the page to see it.
