Noindex/nofollow
- <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
web validator
Meta Robots / X-Robots-Tag Validator
Check meta robots and X-Robots-Tag directives for index/follow settings and canonical presence.
Results
Processing…- Status
- Processing...
- Details
- Processing...
- Meta robots
- Processing...
- X-Robots-Tag
- Processing...
- Canonical
- Processing...
- Noindex?
- Processing...
- Nofollow?
- Processing...
Rules & checks
Extracts meta robots content from HTML.
Parses X-Robots-Tag directives from provided headers text.
Detects noindex/nofollow, and surfaces canonical href when present.
Runs entirely client-side/offline; no data leaves the page.
When to use it
- QA staging pages for correct crawl directives
- Check CDN/edge overrides for X-Robots-Tag
- Verify canonical and robots alignment before launch
Tips
- Ensure canonical matches the intended primary URL
- Avoid conflicting meta robots and X-Robots-Tag directives
Examples
Index/follow
- <meta name="robots" content="index, follow">
X-Robots header
- X-Robots-Tag: noindex
FAQs
- Is anything uploaded?
- No. Validation is local and clears on refresh.
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