Indexability Checker
Indexability Checker is a free tool that finds what stops Google listing a page: a noindex tag, an X-Robots-Tag header, a stray canonical or an error code.
- Free
- No sign-up
- Checks a live page
A page that Google will not list cannot rank, no matter how good it is. This checks the four things that quietly keep a page out of search results: a noindex tag, an X-Robots-Tag header, a canonical pointing somewhere else, and an error status code.
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Guide
How to use it
- 1Paste the address of the page you are worried about.
- 2Check the robots meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header. Either can carry a noindex.
- 3Check the canonical. If it points at a different page, Google will usually show that one instead.
- 4If anything is blocking the page and it should not be, that is the single most valuable fix on your site.
Common questions
Why is my page not appearing in Google?
The common causes, in order: the page is too new, it carries a noindex tag left over from development, robots.txt blocks it, the canonical points elsewhere, or the page genuinely is not good enough to rank yet. This tool rules out the middle three in a few seconds.
What is a noindex tag?
An instruction telling search engines not to list a page. It is useful on thank-you pages and internal search results. It is catastrophic when a developer leaves it on a live site after launch, which happens more often than anyone admits.
Does this check robots.txt too?
Not on this page — robots.txt controls crawling rather than indexing, and it is a site-wide file. Our Website Audit reads it as part of a full check.
Guides on this topic
- Crawled - Currently Not Indexed: Meaning and How to FixWhat crawled - currently not indexed means in Search Console, why Google skips pages it has read, and the steps that get the pages you want indexed.
- How to Rank in Google AI Overviews: A 10-Step ChecklistHow to rank in Google AI Overviews: a 10-step checklist from Google's own guidance, from picking queries and answer-first pages to Google-Extended.
- How to Track AI Overviews: Is Google Showing Your Site?How to track AI Overviews: what Search Console's Generative AI report shows, how to check by hand, what paid trackers do, and how to report it.
- Do AI Overviews Reduce Clicks? What Indian Sites Can DoDo AI Overviews reduce clicks? What Pew, Ahrefs and Google say, how to spot lost clicks in Search Console, and what Indian sites and agencies can do.