Preview how robots meta directives affect your page — toggle index, follow, and advanced options to see the generated tag and a plain-language summary of what search engines will do.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this preview show?
It shows the meta robots tag your selections produce and explains the likely impact on indexing, link following, snippets, caching, and image indexing.
What happens with noindex?
Search engines should not show the page in results. The page may still be crawled unless blocked by robots.txt, but it will not be indexed for display.
What does nosnippet do?
nosnippet prevents search engines from showing a text snippet or cached link in results. The page may still appear with just a title and URL.
Need the HTML tag to paste?
Yes. Use the Meta Robots Tag Generator to build and copy the tag for your page head.
Is this tool free and does it work on mobile?
Yes on both counts. The Robots Meta Preview Tool on draft21 is completely free with no sign-up required and works on all devices.