Noindex tag checker

Find the tag that keeps your page out.

A missing page is often not a crawling mystery. It is a noindex instruction left behind by a plugin, a staging site, or a theme setting.

We read both places that instruction can live: the meta robots tag in the HTML and the X-Robots-Tag in the response headers.

example.com/growth-guide

Meta robots

index, follow

Not blocking

X-Robots-Tag

not set

Not blocking

Nothing on this page tells search engines to stay away. If it is still missing from the index, the cause is elsewhere.

What we look at

Meta robots

The tag inside the HTML head. Most CMS plugins write here, and most accidents happen here.

X-Robots-Tag

A header set by the server or CDN. It is invisible in the page source, which is why it gets missed for months.

Canonical hints

A page pointing its canonical elsewhere is asking to be ignored, even without a noindex tag.