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Free Robots Meta SEO Tool
Free robots meta checker for checking indexability tags.
Check whether a page uses robots meta directives such as noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, and other indexing-related signals.
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✓ On-page SEO checks
✓ Built-in abuse protection
How the robots meta checker works.
This tool fetches the public HTML for a page and extracts the robots meta tag plus related indexing signals.
Scan robots meta tag
The tool checks robots meta directives, canonical tag, final URL, title, and description.
Review indexing status
Use the report to catch accidental noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive, or other page-level indexing directives.
Common robots meta issues this tool can reveal.
Robots meta problems can affect whether search engines index a page, follow its links, show snippets, or cache the page.
Accidental noindex
A noindex directive can prevent a page from appearing in search results.
Nofollow directive
A nofollow directive may tell search engines not to follow links on the page.
Snippet restrictions
Directives like nosnippet or max-snippet can affect how search snippets appear.
Robots meta checker FAQ.
Quick answers about robots meta tags, noindex, nofollow, snippets, indexing, crawling, and SEO directives.
What does this robots meta checker test?
It checks whether a page has a robots meta tag and identifies directives such as noindex, index, nofollow, follow, noarchive, nosnippet, and max-snippet.
What is a robots meta tag?
A robots meta tag gives search engines page-level instructions about indexing, following links, snippets, and caching.
What does noindex mean?
Noindex tells search engines not to include the page in search results.
What does nofollow mean?
Nofollow tells search engines not to follow the links on the page as normal crawl or ranking signals.
Is a missing robots meta tag bad?
No. If a page has no robots meta tag, search engines typically use their default behavior, which is usually index and follow unless blocked elsewhere.
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