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Robots Meta Tag Checker

Inspect the robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag HTTP header of any public URL. Identifies noindex, nofollow, noarchive, noodp, nosnippet, and max-snippet directives that control crawler behaviour.

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Audit your robots meta directives

Fetch any live URL and instantly audit meta name="robots", meta name="googlebot", and X-Robots-Tag headers — so you know exactly what search crawlers see.

Never stored meta robots · googlebot X-Robots-Tag header Conflict detection 10+ directives
Robots Directive Builder

Toggle directives to generate the correct robots meta tag. Red = blocking directives.

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
X-Robots-Tag: index, follow
Paste HTML Paste the <head> section or full page source
Input Text Output Report Browser-only No upload by default

Features

  • Reads meta name='robots' content from the page HTML
  • Checks X-Robots-Tag HTTP response header
  • Identifies noindex, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet directives
  • Shows raw directive values for each
  • Flags pages that may be unintentionally blocked from indexing
  • Fetches public URLs only, SSRF-protected

How to use it

  1. Enter a public page URL in the input.
  2. The tool fetches the HTML and HTTP headers.
  3. Robots directives are displayed and explained.
  4. Review any flagged issues.

Use cases

  • Checking if a page is accidentally marked noindex
  • Auditing robots meta tags before a site migration
  • Verifying robots directives after CMS changes
  • Diagnosing why a page is not appearing in search results

Limitations

  • JavaScript-rendered content is not evaluated. Only the static HTML response is analysed.
  • Paste the raw HTML source. Relative paths may not resolve correctly without the original base URL.
  • noindex and nofollow directives are flagged as warnings.
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Questions & answers

Frequently asked

What is the difference between robots.txt and robots meta tags?

Robots.txt controls crawler access to URLs. The robots meta tag controls indexing and link-following of crawled pages. A page can be crawlable but not indexed.

Does Robots Meta Checker upload my data?

Your file or text is processed in your browser and is not uploaded.

What does Robots Meta Checker check?

It produces a crawlability report. noindex and nofollow directives are flagged as warnings.

Does this replace Google Search Console?

No. This tool reads static HTML and provides a quick informational check. For authoritative indexing data and crawl reports, use Google Search Console.