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Canonical & Indexability Checker

Check canonical tags, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, and indexability signals to ensure search engines can find your pages.

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What is Canonical & Indexability Checker?

The Canonical & Indexability Checker verifies whether search engines can index your page correctly. It checks canonical tags, meta robots directives, X-Robots-Tag headers, HTTP status, and hreflang tags to give you a clear indexability verdict.

Use cases

  • SEO troubleshooting — find out why a page isn't appearing in search results
  • Pre-launch checks — verify indexability before publishing new pages
  • Duplicate content detection — ensure canonical tags correctly point to preferred URLs
  • International SEO — verify hreflang implementation for multilingual sites
  • Migration auditing — check that redirected pages maintain proper canonical signals

Key features

Canonical tag detection and URL match verification
Meta robots parsing (noindex, nofollow, etc.)
X-Robots-Tag HTTP header analysis
HTTP status code check for indexability
Hreflang tag detection for international pages
Clear indexability verdict: fully indexable, warnings, or not indexable

Frequently asked questions

It means the canonical URL specified in the <link rel=canonical> tag matches the current page URL. A mismatch suggests the page is telling search engines to index a different URL instead.

Yes — for example, a missing meta description doesn't prevent indexing but hurts SEO. The tool distinguishes between blocking issues (noindex) and warnings (missing tags).

This tool checks server-rendered HTML. If your canonical tag is added via JavaScript, search engines may or may not see it depending on their rendering capabilities.