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meta robots noindex

Pages carrying <meta name="robots" content="noindex">. The page asks search engines to keep it out of their results, and they do. On a page meant to be found — a product, a category, an article — it is often a leftover from a staging site.

CriticalINDEX-001 · Indexation · checked on every page

Where it usually comes from

A staging or development setting ("discourage search engines") copied to the live site, an SEO plugin rule applied to a whole post type, or a template for thin pages reused for real ones.

How to fix it

  • Check whether the page is meant to be in search.
  • If it is, remove the noindex from the template or the SEO plugin setting that adds it.
  • If it is not (a thank-you page, an internal search result), accept the finding as intentional.

How to check it yourself

View the page source and search for noindex, or use the URL Inspection tool in Search Console, which says whether the page may be indexed.

What it looks like in a report

Critical The page asks not to be indexed (meta robots noindex). · /category/* · 25 pages

A category template carries noindex, so none of its pages can appear in search. (An example shop; the numbers are illustrative.)

How the audit counts it

INDEX-001 is a critical in the indexation category, and weighs heavily in that category’s score. When it appears on many pages built from the same template, the report shows it once, with the number of pages it covers — because one change in the template fixes all of them.

If the finding is deliberate on your site, it can be accepted as intentional in the report. It then leaves the list and the score, and comes back on its own if what it shows changes.

Other indexation checks

Find it on your site

A Trakis audit runs this check and the other 65 on your site, and tells you on how many pages each one sits. Or go back to all the rules.