Reviewed by Deepak Parmar, SEO and AI search specialist

Free Robots Meta Tag Checker

Paste a robots meta content value and see which indexing and crawling directives it contains.

What does a robots meta tag checker do?

It reads the directives in a robots meta content value and highlights common instructions such as noindex, nofollow, noarchive and nosnippet.

How to check robots meta directives

Paste the value from a page's robots meta tag, such as noindex, nofollow. The checker breaks the directives into a simple report.

Why check robots meta tags?

An accidental noindex can keep a valuable page out of search. A technical SEO audit should confirm that important pages use the intended robots directives.

FAQ

Does this fetch a live URL?
No. Paste the robots directive yourself, so the tool works without an API or server crawler.