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Compare Chrome extensions: Inspect Canonical vs Robots Exclusion Checker

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Stats Inspect Canonical Inspect Canonical Robots Exclusion Checker Robots Exclusion Checker
User count 6,000+ 30,000+
Average rating 4.40 5.00
Rating count 10 27
Last updated 2022-11-30 2022-05-12
Size 29.50K 174.08K
Version 1.0 1.1.8.1
Short description
Easily check the canonical tag of a page Live URL checks against robots.txt, meta robots, x-robots-tag & canonical tags. Simple Red, Amber & Green status. An SEO Extension.
Full summary

A lightweight and extremely easy Chrome extension that tells you the canonical source of any URL you are on. No more combing through the source code to understand if/when canonical tags point to a new destination. This extension does all the heavy lifting for you.

This extension will display one of three values. GREEN (self canonical) AMBER (Canonicalized) or RED (error)

Below are the conditions Inspect Canonical tests for, in the order it tests for them:

RED:

  1. Page contains noindex robots meta Message: "Page contains robots 'noindex' tag. Canonical tags are ignored. Click to view source"

  2. No canonical in head but there is one elsewhere Message: "Canonical tag exists but not in <head>. Click to view source"

  3. No canonical tag at all

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Robots Exclusion Checker is designed to visually indicate whether any robots exclusions are preventing your page from being crawled or indexed by Search Engines.

The extension reports on 5 elements:

  1. Robots.txt
  2. Meta Robots tag
  3. X-robots-tag
  4. Rel=Canonical
  5. UGC, Sponsored and Nofollow attribute values
  • Robots.txt

If a URL you are visiting is being affected by an "Allow” or “Disallow” within robots.txt, the extension will show you the specific rule within the extension, making it easy to copy or visit the live robots.txt. You will also be shown the full robots.txt with the specific rule highlighted (if applicable). Cool eh!

  • Meta Robots Tag
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