SEO & Marketing
Website Indexability Checker
Diagnose why one public URL may stay out of search by crossing HTTP access, robots directives, noindex, canonical, language and initial HTML.
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Transparent methodology
What the result includes—and what it does not
Built for site owners diagnosing one public page that is missing, excluded or behaving unexpectedly in search.
Calculation method
- 1Fetch the public URL, follow every accepted redirect and record the final HTTP response.
- 2Read meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, canonical, language, initial content and the site's general robots.txt rules.
- 3Return the strongest demonstrated conflict with the exact response evidence and a verification step.
Assumptions and limits
- The checker can explain technical eligibility signals but cannot read a search engine's private index state without that engine's authenticated inspection product.
- robots.txt controls crawling and can prevent a crawler from seeing a noindex directive; it is not itself a guaranteed removal instruction.
- JavaScript-rendered changes are not claimed as initial-HTML findings.
Worked example
Sitemap URL returning noindex
Input: One product URL that returns 200 and appears in sitemap.xml.
Output: A critical sitemap/indexability conflict if its HTML or response header declares noindex.
Primary sources
- Google Search — Crawling and indexingPrimary documentation for crawl access, indexability signals, canonicals, sitemaps, redirects and JavaScript search behavior.
- Google Search — robots.txtExplains that robots.txt primarily controls crawling and is not a guaranteed removal mechanism.
- Google Search — Canonical URLsOfficial guidance for canonical signals and duplicate URL consolidation.
- Sitemaps protocolOpen protocol for sitemap XML, sitemap indexes and loc elements.
How to use it
From public URL to verified release.
- 1Choose the release mission and declare whether the scope should be public.
- 2Keep the page open while respectful batches read public HTML and cross page signals.
- 3Export the evidence, deploy the fix, then load the project to verify the same scope.
Built for trust
Evidence without a false promise.
- No registration or paywall before your result.
- Only public URLs are fetched; HTML is not written into the project.
- Ready to ship describes the checked scope; it never guarantees indexing or ranking.
Frequently asked questions
How can I check if a URL is technically indexable?
A public page normally needs a successful final response, crawl access, no blocking noindex directive and coherent canonical signals. This checker reads those signals together and shows the evidence instead of reducing them to one score.
Why is my page not indexed even when this check passes?
Technical eligibility is not an indexing promise. Discovery, duplication, content usefulness, crawl demand, manual actions and search-engine decisions can still keep a technically accessible page out of the index.
Does robots.txt remove a page from Google?
Not reliably. Google documents robots.txt as a crawl-control file. A blocked URL can still be known through links, and blocking it can prevent the crawler from reading a noindex directive on the page.
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