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Can Google index this URL? Free indexability checker

Enter a URL and the tool reads what the URL itself tells Google: its HTTP status, any redirect, the X-Robots-Tag header, the robots meta tag, the canonical link and whether robots.txt lets Googlebot crawl it. You get a plain verdict and the exact fix for anything that blocks indexing. It does not query Google, so it cannot say whether the URL is already in the index.

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How it works

Limits

Sources: Google: robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag

Frequently asked questions

Does this tell me if my page is in Google?

No. It checks whether anything on the URL stops indexing. For Google's own answer about a URL, use the URL Inspection tool in Search Console.

My page is blocked in robots.txt and has noindex. Which wins?

Neither can be applied the way you expect: Googlebot cannot fetch a robots.txt-blocked page, so it never sees the noindex. To keep a page out of search, leave it crawlable and use noindex.

What does 'canonical points elsewhere' mean?

The page tells search engines that another URL is the preferred version. Google may index that URL instead of this one. If this page should be indexed, its canonical must point to itself.

Where does X-Robots-Tag come from?

It is an HTTP response header set by your server, CDN or framework. It can carry noindex for any file type, including PDFs, and is easy to miss because it does not appear in the page source.

Can a page behind a login be indexed?

Googlebot does not sign in, so content that needs a login is not available to it. The tool warns on 401, 403 and redirects to login-looking paths.

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