Indexing

The Indexing panel shows everything that affects whether and how a page gets indexed by search engines. Open it from the browser sidebar to see robots directives, canonical URLs, hreflang tags, and sitemap information for the current page.

What it shows

URL and indexability

• The full page URL with character count
• An indexability status — whether the page is likely to be indexed based on all signals

Meta robots

All robots directives found on the page, including:

• index / noindex
• follow / nofollow
• noarchive, nosnippet, max-snippet, and others

The panel reads directives from both <meta name="robots"> tags and X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers.

Canonical URL

• The canonical URL declared on the page
• Whether it's self-referencing (points to itself) or points to a different URL
• Flags mismatches between the page URL and canonical — a common source of indexing issues

Robots.txt

• Whether a robots.txt file exists on the domain
• A direct link to view the robots.txt file

Hreflang tags

A table of all hreflang tags found on the page:

The list is expandable if there are many entries. Use this to verify your international targeting is set up correctly.

Sitemaps

Auto-discovers sitemaps from:

• robots.txt sitemap references
• Common sitemap locations (/sitemap.xml, /sitemap_index.xml)

Shows a list of discovered sitemaps with links to view each one.

Export

Click the export button to download all indexing data as a CSV — useful for documenting indexing signals across a site audit.

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