Wondering if you web site and pages are indexable by search engines such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo. IsItIndexable is a free tool and in-depth and effective solution to check if URLs are indexable by search engines. Just enter your URLs and determine their indexability status.
IsItIndexable increases your website’s search engine performance and online presence:
Having your website’s pages and external backlinks indexed by search engines is essential for increasing your online visibility and driving organic traffic to your site. However, it can be challenging to keep track of which pages are indexable and which ones are not.
Test webpages and backlinks and receive a full report with tips on how to improve errors. IsItIndexable tests 14 different data points to reveal entered URL’s health and accessibility.
Some of the issues affecting an URL to be indexed by the search engines include the following:
- robots.txt File
You need to make sure that the URLs you want to get indexed are not blocked in this robots.txt file. - Robots Meta Tag
The robots meta tag is a html element providing specific guidelines to web crawlers about what they should do with the content on the page. - X-Robots-Tag HTTP Header
Headers are usually not visible by a web browser, but contain technical information about what content type is being given, when it was requested, what encoding it uses, etc.. - Canonical Links
The ‘canonical’ link html element prevents duplicate content issues from arising. - HTTP Status Code
These codes are server responses to a client’s request, and provide information whether a request was successful or not. - SSL Issues
For years search engines have told us that we should be using SSL on all our websites, even touting a ranking boost to get us on board. That boost never really came, but using https is pretty much the standard these days. However, numerous times a site’s webmaster will let a SSL certificate lapse, which means broken https connectivity. Googlebot examines SSL certificate lapses and views this as a security problem, and will not feature such URLs until the problem is resolved. - Indexable Content
The internet contains billions of pages therefore search engines are becoming more particular about what pages to index . A web page with an article containing at least 200 words of unique text, will likely rank higher on Google than a more sparse web page.
IsItIndexable provides some tips for how to ensure a link is indexed:
- Create quality content
- Build backlinks
- Utilize social media platforms
- Monitor and analyze indexing progress