Is Google actually allowed to index your pages?
A single noindex tag, a stray robots header or a page-level block can remove a page from search without changing how it looks to you at all. This reads your key pages the way a crawler does and reports what it is told.
A bounded sample of your key pages plus robots.txt, fetched from outside your network. Nothing is stored.
How this check works
Shipwork crawls a sample of your key pages and reads the raw HTML and response headers — the same signals a crawler sees before it runs any JavaScript. It reports pages marked noindex, pages returning errors to an outside request, and robots.txt rules that block crawlers from the whole site.
Questions
- Why are my pages missing from Google?
- The common silent causes are a noindex tag, an X-Robots-Tag header, a robots.txt rule blocking crawlers, or a page that returns an error to an outside request. All are invisible in your own browser.
- Does this work on any platform?
- Yes. It reads HTML and response headers, so it works on Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix, Squarespace and hand-built sites alike.
- What is the difference between noindex and a robots.txt block?
- noindex tells engines not to list a page they may still crawl; robots.txt tells them not to crawl it at all. Either can remove a page from search.