Can Google actually index this URL?
Status, redirects, meta robots, canonical, robots.txt, and sitemap — the technical signals that decide indexing, checked in one pass with a plain verdict.
Free · no sign-up · checks status, meta robots, canonical, robots.txt, and sitemap
What this checks — and why it matters
A page can look perfectly normal in a browser and still be invisible to Google — a stray noindex tag, a canonical pointing somewhere else, or a robots.txt rule written for a different section of the site can all quietly remove a page from the index without any visible error.
This checker fetches the live URL, follows any redirects, and reports the HTTP status, meta robots and X-Robots-Tag header, canonical tag (and whether it’s self-referencing), robots.txt allow/block for Googlebot, whether the URL appears in the site’s declared sitemap(s), and any hreflang tags — then gives a plain verdict: indexable, not indexable and why, or indexable but with a caveat worth fixing.
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Frequently asked questions
Why isn't my page showing up in Google?
The most common causes are a noindex tag (meta robots or the X-Robots-Tag header), a robots.txt rule blocking Googlebot, a canonical tag pointing at a different URL, or the page returning a non-200 status. This tool checks all four in one pass.
What does 'canonical' mean and why does it matter?
A canonical tag tells Google which URL is the authoritative version of a page's content. If it points to a different URL than the one you're checking, Google will typically index that other URL instead — so the page you care about may never rank, even with no explicit noindex.
Does being in the sitemap guarantee indexing?
No. A sitemap is a hint that speeds up discovery — it doesn't override a noindex tag or a robots.txt block, and Google can still choose not to index a page that's in the sitemap. But a URL that's indexable and NOT in the sitemap may simply be discovered slower.