How do I check if a page has noindex or nofollow set?

Enter the page URL into the Noindex/Nofollow Checker. It fetches the page and reports the robots directives from both the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag header in plain language.

What is a noindex directive?

Noindex tells search engines not to include the page in their index. The page can still be crawled, but it will not appear in search results. It can come from a meta robots tag in the HTML or an X-Robots-Tag HTTP header.

What is the difference between meta robots and X-Robots-Tag?

They carry the same directives, but meta robots lives in the page HTML while X-Robots-Tag is sent as an HTTP header. Headers are often used for non-HTML files like PDFs. This tool checks both and reports which one carries each directive.

What does nofollow mean on a page?

A nofollow robots directive tells crawlers not to follow the links on the page. Note this is different from rel="nofollow" on individual links; the meta directive applies to the whole page.

Why would an important page be noindexed?

Common causes: a staging noindex left on after launch, a CMS plugin setting, or a misconfigured header applied site-wide. Accidentally noindexed pages silently disappear from search results.

Yes. The tool fetches the page with SSRF protection, a 10 second timeout and a capped body size. Only the robots directives are read and nothing is stored.

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Noindex/Nofollow Checker

Check if a page tells search engines to stay awayThe most dangerous SEO bugs are the ones you cannot see. A single noindex tag or a quiet robots header can remove a page from Google overnight while everything looks fine to visitors. This checker inspects every layer where blocking directives hide.

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How to use the Noindex/Nofollow Checker

Enter page URL

Enter the page URL you want to check.

Fetch directives

Click "Check Robots Directives" to fetch it.

Read the verdict

Read the verdict: indexable, or blocked by noindex/nofollow.

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About the Noindex/Nofollow Checker

A page can look perfect yet be invisible to Google because of one noindex line. This tool reads the meta robots tag and X-Robots-Tag header and gives a plain verdict: indexable, or blocked and which directive blocks it.

Use it after launches and migrations to confirm key pages are indexable, and in audits to catch staging leftovers. The full directive list is reported too.

Where it helps most

Powerful when intentional, silent killers when not.

Emergency triage

The urgent use is triage: a page drops out of the index, you run this check, and the culprit is named in seconds.

Launch QA

The routine use is launch and migration QA: sweep key pages to confirm no staging noindex rode into production unnoticed.

Update insurance

Schedule this check after every CMS, theme or plugin update; updates are the second most common source of surprise directives after migrations.

Link equity audit

Scan the page's links for nofollow attributes, so you can see exactly which outbound and internal links pass no equity.

Checking well

Every hiding place, inspected.

Meta robots

Reads the meta robots tag in the HTML for noindex and nofollow directives.

X-Robots-Tag

Reads the invisible HTTP response header most people forget exists.

Link scan

Scans page links for nofollow attributes on both outbound and internal links.

Noindex/Nofollow Checker: built for trust

A thirty-second check after each update is the cheapest insurance against silent de-indexing.

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Noindex/Nofollow Checker FAQs

What is the difference between noindex and nofollow?

Noindex tells search engines not to store the page in their index, while nofollow tells them not to pass ranking credit through a link. One affects the page itself, the other affects the links on it.

What is the X-Robots-Tag header?

How does a staging noindex leak into production?

Can a single page be noindexed while the rest of the site is fine?

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