Verify whether any webpage or URL can be crawled and indexed by Google, Bing, and AI search engines. We inspect HTTP headers, X-Robots-Tag, HTML meta robots, robots.txt crawl rules, and canonical tags.
Search engine bots require a successful 200 OK HTTP response code on the final destination URL to parse and index webpage content.
<meta name="robots" content="follow, index, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large">
On-page HTML directive inside <head>. If set to noindex, search engines will remove the page from search results.
Server-level HTTP response header. Takes precedence over HTML tags and can block indexing across entire directories or non-HTML files.
Evaluates site-wide robots.txt directives to ensure crawlers are not blocked from fetching and rendering this URL path.
<link rel="canonical" href="https://webstix.com/">
Directs search engines to the authoritative master version of a webpage to consolidate duplicate or parameterized URLs.
Verifies that Cloudflare Turnstile, CAPTCHA challenges, or restrictive WAF rules do not inadvertently block automated search engine indexers.
Crawlable and indexable
Crawlable and indexable
Crawlable and indexable
Crawlable and indexable
Crawlable and indexable
Before search engine crawlers examine any page content, the web server must return an authoritative 200 OK HTTP response code. If the server returns 404 (Not Found), 410 (Gone), 403 (Forbidden), or 500 (Server Error), the URL cannot be indexed.
The robots.txt file acts as the front door for search engine bots. If a rule specifies Disallow: /, search engines are instructed not to fetch the page content. Note: pages blocked in robots.txt may still appear in search results without snippets if linked externally.
The standard on-page mechanism to control indexing. Placing <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> in the <head> instructs Google and Bing to discard the page from the search index while continuing to crawl internal links if follow is specified.
An HTTP response header sent by the web server. It provides identical functionality to the HTML meta robots tag, but can be applied across non-HTML assets (such as PDFs, images, API endpoints, or entire subdomains via web server configuration).