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NoindexWatch
Get an email when a page stops being indexable
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Get an email when a page stops being indexable
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Checks your key URLs daily (hourly on paid plans) the way Googlebot fetches them and alerts you when something changes: a noindex, an X-Robots-Tag, a robots.txt block, a broken redirect or a canonical pointing elsewhere. Free for one site.
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I built NoindexWatch because a stray noindex or a "Disallow: /" is easy to ship with a release and slow to notice: traffic drops a week later when Google recrawls. Search Console does tell you, but only after Google has recrawled the page.
You add a site and up to 20 URLs on it. Each one is fetched with its robots.txt, like a crawler would, and you get one email when something changes: meta robots, X-Robots-Tag on any redirect hop, robots.txt rules for Googlebot and Bingbot, canonical, status codes and redirects, URLs dropping out of the XML sitemap, and which of 14 AI crawlers robots.txt blocks. Alerts can also go to Slack or Discord.
The free plan is 1 site, checked daily, no card. Paid plans check every hour: $19/mo for 10 sites, $49 for 40, $99 for 150. There are also twelve free tools that need no account, like a noindex checker, robots.txt tester and bulk indexability checker.
It doesn't render JavaScript, and sites behind strict bot protection may block it (noindexwatch.com/bot explains how to allow it). I'd like to hear what check you'd want added next.