Technical SEO
Indexability
Whether a page is allowed to be stored in a search engine's index after being crawled.
CurrentLast updated: 2026-09-16
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Technical SEOIndexability refers to whether a crawled page is permitted to be stored in the search index. A page can be crawlable (accessible to bots) but not indexable (blocked by noindex). Indexability is controlled by directives like noindex tags and robots meta tags.
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