Free Noindex Tag Checker — Find Out Why Google Isn’t Showing Your Pages
Check whether search engines are blocked from indexing your pages. Paste up to 10 URLs and instantly see the noindex, nofollow, and other robots directives affecting each one.
Checks noindex, nofollow, and other robots directives across the meta tag, HTTP header, and robots.txt.
What Is a Noindex Tag?
Noindex is an HTML meta tag or HTTP header directive that instructs search engines not to include a page in their index. It’s essentially telling Google, “don’t show this one in search results.”
This can be useful if you have pages you’re intentionally hiding, duplicate content to avoid, or test pages to keep out of search. But it’s just as often added by accident — and that’s where the real damage happens: your most important pages stop showing up in search, traffic drops, and you have no idea why.
Why You Should Look for Noindex Tags
This belongs in every SEO audit. Whether you’re running a personal blog, an e-commerce store, or a client project, knowing what’s indexed — and why some pages aren’t — matters.
How to Use This Tool
Paste Your URLs
Up to 10 full URLs, one per line.
Click Check
We fetch each page’s live source code and response headers.
See the Verdict
Instantly see which pages are indexable, and exactly why the others aren’t.
Tip: for larger sites, start with your highest-value pages — the homepage, product pages, and top landing pages. Those are the ones that matter most.
What This Tool Checks
Most free checkers only look at the meta tag. This one checks every place a page can be told to stay out of search.
Meta Robots Tag
Reads <meta name=”robots”> and the Googlebot-specific variant directly from the page’s HTML.
X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header
Catches server-level noindex rules — the ones that never show up in “view source” but still block indexing.
Robots.txt Block
Flags pages that are also disallowed in robots.txt — Google can’t even see a page’s noindex tag if it isn’t allowed to crawl it in the first place.
Nofollow & Other Directives
Also surfaces nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex, and other robots directives found on the page.
⚠ When Noindex Is the Problem
If your blog posts or category pages have vanished from Google, this is the first thing to check. Noindex is often added by:
- SEO plugins like Yoast or Rank Math, misconfigured
- CMS settings changed during a redesign
- Developers testing on staging, forgetting to remove it
- A content writer flipping the wrong switch in the editor
✓ When Noindex Is Actually Good
There are moments you genuinely want this tag in place:
- Thank-you pages after a form submission
- Login or checkout pages
- Internal search results pages
- Low-quality or duplicate content pages
Frequently Asked Questions
Does this tool crawl the page, or just check the source code?
It fetches the live page and examines both the HTML source and the HTTP response headers for noindex signals.
Does it also check if a page is blocked by robots.txt?
Yes. Alongside the meta tag and header check, it also checks robots.txt for the page’s path — because if Googlebot can’t crawl a page at all, it can’t see any noindex tag on it either. If you want a deeper, standalone robots.txt audit, we also have a dedicated Robots.txt Tester.
Does it check nofollow too?
Yes. Alongside noindex, it surfaces nofollow and other robots directives — noarchive, nosnippet, noimageindex, and more — found in either the meta tag or the header.
Can I check hundreds of URLs at once?
Not here — this tool is capped at 10 URLs at a time to keep results fast and easy to read. For large-scale audits, use a crawler like Screaming Frog or Sitebulb.
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