— Free SEO tool
Noindex checker
A single noindex tag left over from a staging site can keep a page, or a whole site, out of Google. This finds them.
Free tool · Noindex checker
Find pages that are hidden from Google
Put in your home page. The checker reads up to 50 pages and checks each for a noindex rule, in the page’s robots meta tag or in the X-Robots-Tag header.
Pages come from your sitemap, or by following links from the home page if there isn’t one. Results aren’t stored anywhere. Pages built entirely with JavaScript may show as empty, because this reads the HTML your server sends.
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What it checks
The robots meta tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in the page, or the same rule aimed at googlebot. Google drops a page with this from its results.
The X-Robots-Tag header
The same rule can be sent in the server’s response headers, where it’s invisible in the page source. It’s often how PDFs and whole sections get noindexed by accident.
Errors and redirects
Pages returning 404 or 5xx errors, and pages that redirect first, are listed too, along with canonicals pointing at another URL: all reasons a page may not appear as itself.
Sources: Google: Block indexing with noindex · Google: Consolidate duplicate URLs
02 Questions
What people ask
What does noindex do?
It tells Google not to show the page in search results. Google has to be able to crawl the page to see the rule, so don’t also block it in robots.txt.
My page isn’t noindexed but still isn’t on Google. Why?
It may not have been crawled yet, Google may have chosen a different URL as the canonical, or it may have judged the page not worth indexing. Search Console’s URL Inspection tool gives the reason. The guide why your website isn’t showing up on Google walks through them.
Is noindex in robots.txt still supported?
No. Google stopped supporting it in 2019. Use the meta tag or the HTTP header.
— Next step
Start with a free SEO audit
Send me your site and you’ll get a short, honest read on what’s wrong. If you want the detail after that, the full audit is a paid piece of work, or part of a retainer.
- 01The main things holding your site back, in plain English
- 02Which of them are worth fixing first
- 03Whether a full audit or a retainer makes sense, or neither