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Noindex checker: is your site hidden from Google by accident?

One meta tag or header can keep your site out of Google entirely. It's often left over from a staging setup. ShipPatrol checks your homepage for noindex.

Why it matters

Google follows a noindex instruction and drops the page from search results. If it's on your homepage by mistake, no amount of other SEO work will help.

How Patch checks

We read the robots meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header on your homepage.

How to fix it

Remove the noindex directive from your homepage.
Check your host or builder settings for a "hide from search engines" or "staging" switch.
Ask Google to recrawl the page in Search Console with URL Inspection.

Your own report goes further: it names the exact pages, services and settings Patch found on your site, and with a full report you get a fix prompt to paste into Lovable, Bolt or Cursor.

Where this applies

Applies to every site that wants search traffic.

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Patch runs "Homepage tells search engines not to index it" along with every other check, from the UK, the EU and the US. Free, no signup.

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