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A LITTLE CLARITY FOR YOUR SEO

Free no index checkerKnow what’s keeping
your page out.

A page can look perfect and still tell search engines to stay away. Check its meta tags, HTTP headers, and robots.txt for indexing and crawl restrictions.

No account needed Search, SEO & AI bot rules
ONE URL. THREE PLACES TO LOOK.

In the pageMeta robots directives

01

In the responseX-Robots-Tag headers

02

In the crawl rulesrobots.txt restrictions

03
THE FREE CHECKER

Let’s look at your page.

One URL at a time

Paste any public page URL. We’ll check the exact page, including its final destination after redirects.

Choose your botsGooglebot by default. Compare more profiles or add your own.

Default rules: Googlebot. Checks use a neutral IndexWatch fetch.

A snapshot of this page’s rulesWhat do the results mean?
READ THE SIGNALS

Three checks.
One clearer picture.

Noindex and a crawl block do different things. Your results show the source of each restriction, so you know where to look.

01 / HTML

Noindex in a meta tag

A robots or crawler-specific meta tag can ask a supporting search engine to leave the page out of its index.

<meta name="robots"
 content="noindex">
Where to look

Your CMS visibility settings, SEO plugin, or page template.

02 / HTTP RESPONSE

Noindex in a header

An X-Robots-Tag response header can carry the same instruction, including on non-HTML resources such as PDFs.

HTTP/2 200 OK
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
Where to look

Your server configuration, application middleware, or CDN rules.

03 / ROBOTS.TXT

A rule blocking crawling

A matching Disallow rule restricts crawling. It does not necessarily remove the URL from search results.

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /
Where to look

The matching bot group and path rules in your robots.txt file.

A clear check means no checked restriction was found. Search engines still decide what gets indexed. Google must be able to crawl a page to see its noindex directive.

Read the source:Google’s noindex guide How robots.txt works
FROM A QUICK CHECK TO A QUIET LOOKOUT

Your next release
deserves a second look.

This tool checks one URL when you ask. A free IndexWatch workspace keeps checking your saved pages, so an accidental noindex has somewhere to show up.

Create your free workspace
  1. 01

    Add your important pages.

    Start with the URLs that matter most across your websites. Your homepage, key landing pages, and best articles are a good place to begin.

  2. 02

    Let scheduled checks do their thing.

    Choose a monitoring interval available on your plan. Pick your bots and see the latest meta, header, and robots.txt findings in your portal.

  3. 03

    Turn on the heads-up.

    Enable email notifications in Settings to get alerts when checks detect relevant changes. Timing follows completed checks and email delivery.

A FEW GOOD QUESTIONS

A little less mystery.

What this checker can tell you, and what comes next.

Is this no index checker really free?

Yes. You can check a public URL without creating an account. Request limits keep the tool available to everyone. Free accounts also include scheduled monitoring. See current free plan limits for page allowances and check intervals.

Does this tell me if Google indexed my page?

No. We inspect a page’s current directives, not Google’s index database. Use URL Inspection in Google Search Console to investigate Google’s recorded indexing status. Finding no restrictions does not guarantee search inclusion.

Will one check scan my entire website?

Each check examines the exact URL you submit. Other pages may have different directives. Create a workspace to monitor the individual URLs you add; plans with bulk imports also support text files and sitemaps within their page limits.

How do the different bot checks work?

Googlebot is the default. Expand “Choose your bots” to select multiple search, SEO, or AI profiles, all supported bots, or a custom user agent. IndexWatch fetches with its own neutral identity and evaluates the shared response for those bots’ rules. It does not reproduce separate bot visits or verified crawler IPs.

What if a firewall or JavaScript changes the response?

We read returned HTML without rendering JavaScript, so tags injected later can be missed. A firewall may block our request; we report that as an access problem, not a noindex finding. Robots.txt responses may be cached for up to 60 seconds.

How do I fix an accidental noindex?

First confirm that the page should be indexed. Remove the unintended directive from the source shown in your result: the page’s HTML, an HTTP header, or a robots.txt crawl rule. Review your CMS, templates, server, and CDN settings as appropriate. Refresh affected caches, then check again. Keep intentional restrictions on content you do not want indexed.

Can IndexWatch alert me if it happens again?

Yes. Add your pages to a workspace and enable email notifications in Settings. Monitoring checks for changes in their indexing and crawl signals. Your chosen schedule and plan determine the check interval. Busy queues, website rate limits, retries, and email delivery can affect when an alert arrives.

Does noindex block AI training crawlers too?

Support varies by provider. Where support is undocumented, noindex findings are advisory. Follow each provider’s crawl controls; robots.txt may not apply to user-initiated ChatGPT-User visits.

FOR THE PAGES YOU’VE WORKED HARD ON

Check it today.
Keep an eye on it tomorrow.

Give your important pages a watchlist, a schedule,
and a heads-up when something changes.

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