Check if Search Engines Can Index Your Website
Test your website’s accessibility for 6 major search engine crawlers: Googlebot, Bingbot, YandexBot, BaiduSpider, DuckDuckBot, and Google-Extended. Verify if your robots.txt rules match actual bot behavior and ensure search engines can properly crawl and index your content.
Explore our complete Bot Detection Tools suite to test different types of crawlers and protect your website.
Why Test Search Engine Bot Access?
Detect Blocked Crawlers Find out if critical search engine bots are accidentally blocked by your robots.txt, server configuration, or security rules.
Verify robots.txt Configuration Compare what your robots.txt declares with how search engines actually respond. Catch misconfigurations before they hurt your SEO.
Prevent Indexing Issues Ensure Googlebot and other crawlers can access your important pages. A single robots.txt mistake can remove your site from search results.
Search Engine Bots Tested (6 crawlers)
- Googlebot — Google Search indexing (also powers Google Images, News, Video)
- Bingbot — Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search
- YandexBot — Yandex search engine (dominant in Russia and CIS)
- BaiduSpider — Baidu search (largest search engine in China)
- DuckDuckBot — DuckDuckGo privacy-focused search
- Google-Extended — Google AI Search (Gemini in Google Search results)
Learn more about how search engines work in our SEO Bots Guide and Understanding Bot Traffic articles.
How It Works
- Enter Your Domain — Provide your website URL
- Fetch robots.txt — We analyze your robots.txt rules
- Simulate Bot Requests — Test actual HTTP access for each search engine bot
- Compare Results — See if robots.txt rules match real bot behavior
- Get Detailed Report — View which bots are allowed, blocked, or restricted
What You’ll Discover
- ✓ Backend Access Status — Real HTTP response codes (200, 403, 503, etc.)
- ✓ robots.txt Rules — Specific directives for each bot (Disallow, Allow, User-agent)
- ✓ Robots Meta Tags — X-Robots-Tag headers and directives
- ✓ Access Conflicts — When robots.txt says “allow” but server blocks the bot
Common Use Cases
SEO Audit Verify that Googlebot and Bingbot can crawl all your important pages before launching a new site or after a major update.
Troubleshooting Indexing Debug why Google isn’t indexing your pages. Check if Googlebot is being blocked by robots.txt, firewall, or CDN rules.
International SEO Test YandexBot and BaiduSpider access if you’re targeting Russian or Chinese markets. Different search engines need different configurations.
Security vs. SEO Balance Ensure your bot protection (Cloudflare, rate limiting, WAF) doesn’t accidentally block legitimate search engine crawlers.
For step-by-step guidance, check out our robots.txt configuration guide to properly control crawler access.
Ready to Test Your Site?
Enter your domain above to instantly check which search engine bots can access your website. Get detailed reports on Googlebot, Bingbot, and 4 other major crawlers — completely free, no signup required.