SEO check
Noindex
Looks for noindex or none in <meta name="robots">, <meta name="googlebot"> and the X-Robots-Tag response header. Header rules scoped to another crawler (for example bingbot: noindex) don’t count.
- Category
- SEO
- Importance
- High importance
- Check id
- noindex
How the result is decided
- PassNo noindex directive for Google.
- FailAny of them tells Google not to index the page.
Why it matters
A noindex directive removes the page from search results. It is often left behind from a staging site or set by a plugin by mistake.
How to fix it
If the page should be found, remove the directive from the meta tag or the server or CDN configuration that sends the header. Then ask Google to recrawl the URL in Search Console.
After the fix, open the page’s report and choose Run again to confirm it passes.