Technical SEO
Crawl, render, index, migrate
- Access
Stage 1: Access
Indexability inspector
Status code, redirect chain, robots.txt rules and index directives for one URL, so you can see whether a page can be crawled and indexed.
Free to use. No login, nothing stored.
What it checks
Access- HTTP status and each redirect hop to the final URL
- robots.txt verdict for Googlebot and Bingbot, with the matched rule
- meta robots and X-Robots-Tag directives
- Canonical: self, another URL or absent
- Conflicting signals, such as noindex with a canonical to another page
Method question for this stage: Can crawlers reach and render every key page?
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Results
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- Info
Four groups: Response, Crawl rules, Indexing directives, Verdict
Each row names the rule it tests and links to Google's documentation. The verdict is Indexable, Not indexable with the reason, or Conflicting signals with the list; there is no score.
A check against published rules, not a prediction. Search Console shows what is indexed; the Technical SEO service fixes what this finds.
How we check
The rules this tool tests, and where they come from
A result is a check against a published rule, not a prediction. Every row shows its working.
Rules and sources
- Google: robots.txt specification
- Google: robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag
- Google: canonicalization
- Google: redirects and Google Search
- Google: HTTP status codes, network and DNS errors
Links go to the operator's or standards body's own documentation. We do not link to third-party summaries.
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Fix what it finds
This check belongs to the Access stage of the Crawl-to-Citation Method. The service below covers the fix; the Diagnostic ranks it against everything else.
Most engagements start with the Search Visibility Diagnostic ($2,500).
It covers all six method stages, so what this tool finds is ranked against everything else before you commit to any work.
Book the diagnosticIndexability questions
What the verdict means, and what it does not.
Still have questions? Book a callDoes "Indexable" mean the page is indexed?
No. It means nothing in the response, the robots.txt rules or the on-page directives stops Google from indexing the URL. Whether Google has chosen to index it, and under which canonical, is reported only in Search Console. This tool tells you what to fix when Search Console says a page is excluded.
Why is a noindex behind a robots.txt block a conflict?
A robots.txt disallow stops Googlebot from fetching the page, so it never reads the HTML and never sees the noindex. Google can still list the bare URL from links on other pages. To keep a page out of the index, allow crawling and serve noindex; to save crawl budget, block it in robots.txt and accept that the URL may still appear.
Is a canonical that points to another URL a problem?
Only when the page is meant to rank on its own. A canonical to another URL is the right signal for a duplicate, a tracking-parameter variant or a syndicated copy. It is a problem when it points at a URL that redirects, returns an error or carries noindex, and when several canonical tags disagree, because Google then ignores the hint and chooses for itself.
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