Free noindex checker
Find out whether a page is hidden from Google, Bing and AI search. We check the meta robots tag, the X-Robots-Tag header and crawler-specific tags in one go.
Check one page in seconds and see which directive hides it.
A stray noindex goes unnoticed, and nobody tells you.
- A noindex tag left over from staging
- A header set by your server or CDN
- A page that returns an error status
- Pages missing from Google, Bing and AI answers
Sona shows you which directive is responsible.
- The meta robots tag checked
- The X-Robots-Tag header checked
- Crawler tags like googlebot and bingbot checked
- The exact directive named
What is a noindex tag?
A noindex tag tells search engines to leave a page out of their results. It can sit in the page's HTML or in a server response header. The page stays live for visitors, but it does not show up in search.
This is step one, not the finish line. A page also needs clear structure and tags AI engines can read. This free checker looks at noindex directives. The free AI Crawl Checker tests whether AI crawlers can reach your site.
Check your page in three steps
Three steps from page URL to verdict.
Fetch
We load your page the way a browser does. Redirects are followed.
Read
We read the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag header. We also read crawler-specific meta tags like googlebot and bingbot.
Verdict
If anything says noindex or none, or the page returns an error status, the page is flagged. You see exactly which directive is responsible.
What this checks
We read the meta robots tag, the X-Robots-Tag header, and crawler-specific meta tags like googlebot and bingbot.
Where it looks
The three places it reads.
- The meta robots tag
- The X-Robots-Tag response header
- Crawler-specific tags such as googlebot
What it flags
What keeps a page out of search.
- noindex
- The "none" directive (shorthand for noindex, nofollow)
- Error status codes
How the page loads
How the page is fetched.
- Like a browser
- Redirects are followed
If anything says noindex or none - or the page returns an error status - you see exactly which directive is responsible.
See the difference removing noindex makes
The same page, before and after the fix.
- meta robots: noindex
- X-Robots-Tag: noindex
- No noindex directive
- the page can be indexed
Why noindex matters
A noindex tag quietly removes a page from search.
Left out of AI answers
A noindexed page is generally left out of AI answers built on Google's and Bing's indexes.
The header is easy to miss
The X-Robots-Tag header is set by your server or CDN, not in the HTML, so it's easy to miss.
Not the same as robots.txt
robots.txt stops crawlers fetching a page; noindex lets them fetch it but keeps it out of the index.
This check is a snapshot. Sona is the system.
Noindex decides whether a page can appear in search and AI answers. Sona Agent Analytics shows which AI crawlers read your pages and how many visitors they send back. AI Search Insights shows whether you are cited in AI answers.
AI Search Insights
"Am I being cited in AI answers, and how do I compare to competitors?"
- Track the prompts your buyers actually ask across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, DeepSeek, Grok & more
- See your rankings and share of answer against competitors
- Find which sources answer engines cite, and which of your pages get surfaced
Agent Analytics
"Are AI crawlers reading my site, and is AI search sending me traffic?"
- See AI crawler activity by bot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
- Measure referral traffic clicking through from AI answers
- Page-level view of what gets crawled and what drives AI referrals
Noindex Checker FAQs
Quick answers about noindex and this checker.