Audit Robots, Sitemaps, Canonicals and Redirect Chains
Crawl Controls runs a one-click technical audit of your site indexing fundamentals. It fetches and analyses your robots.txt, discovers sitemap URLs, checks pages for meta noindex and X-Robots-Tag headers, validates canonical tags, and traces redirect chains to flag loops or excessive hops.
Key Capabilities
- Fetch and parse your robots.txt to identify blocked paths that prevent crawler access.
- Discover and validate sitemap URLs to ensure all important pages are listed for crawlers.
- Check pages for meta noindex tags and X-Robots-Tag headers that block indexing silently.
- Validate canonical tags against live URLs to detect self-referencing errors and cross-domain issues.
- Trace redirect chains and flag loops or chains with more than three hops that waste crawl budget.
Use It When
- You suspect your robots.txt is blocking AI crawlers from accessing important content pages.
- You want to verify that all indexable pages are included in your XML sitemap.
- You need to audit redirect chains after a site migration to find loops and excessive hops.
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