Indexability Checker
Paste a URL and see in a few seconds whether anything blocks Google from indexing it.
The four checks, in the order Google applies them
Before a page can appear in search results it has to get through a short chain of gates. If any one of them is closed the page stays out, no matter how good the content is.
1. HTTP status
Only pages that answer with 200 OK get indexed. A 301 or 302 sends Google to the destination, 404 and 410 drop the URL, and repeated 5xx errors make Google slow down crawling for the whole site.
2. robots.txt
A Disallow rule stops Googlebot from fetching the page at all. Note the trap: a page blocked in robots.txt can still show up in results as a bare URL, because Google never gets to see a noindex tag on a page it cannot fetch. Test your rules with the robots.txt tester.
3. noindex
A <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> tag or an X-Robots-Tag: noindex response header tells Google to keep the page out. Staging settings that leak into production are the most common cause.
4. Canonical
If the canonical tag names a different URL, you are asking Google to index that one instead. That is correct for duplicates and wrong for pages you want to rank on their own.
What to do when everything passes
Make sure the URL is in your XML sitemap, link to it from a page that is already indexed, and ask Google to crawl it. TurboIndex does the last part automatically for every page in your sitemap and then tells you when the page made it in.
Questions and answers
What does indexable mean?
A page is indexable when nothing technical stops a search engine from adding it to its index: it returns 200, robots.txt allows crawling, there is no noindex directive and the canonical tag points to the page itself.
The tool says my page is indexable but it is not on Google. Why?
Being indexable only means Google is allowed to index the page. Google still has to discover it, crawl it and decide it is worth keeping. New sites and pages with few internal links often wait weeks. Submitting the URL and linking to it from indexed pages shortens the wait.
Does this tool use the real Googlebot?
No. It requests the page with Googlebot's user agent string from our servers. Sites that verify Googlebot by IP address may respond differently, so use the URL Inspection tool in Search Console for the final word.
Should every page be indexable?
No. Cart pages, internal search results, thank-you pages and filtered duplicates are better left out of the index. What matters is that the pages you want traffic for pass every check.