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Rule page.robots-meta.noindex

Audit the noindex robots meta

page.robots-meta.noindex is a check in Crawlmind's site audit that grades high-impact issues of this kind. This page explains why the rule matters and the exact fix.

Impact: highEffort: lowFixable: 1-click

Why it matters

This page has `<meta name="robots" content="noindex">`. Sometimes that's intentional (gated content, internal tools, staging pages that leaked into prod). Often it's accidental: a CMS template inherited the noindex from a parent, or a checkbox was flipped during a redesign. The rule fires so you can decide which case applies.

The fix

Two paths:

**Keep noindexed (intentional).** Leave the meta as-is. Optional:
add `nofollow` to also block link-graph contribution from this page.

```html
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
```

**Make indexable (accidental).** Remove the meta entirely, OR set
an explicit allow:

```html
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow">
```

Re-fetch via Google Search Console → URL Inspection after the change to confirm Google sees the new directive.

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