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Page-wide nofollow

directives.nofollow
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What we look for

These pages carry a nofollow rule (a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header telling search engines not to follow any link on the page).

Why it matters

Pages linked only from here may be found late or not at all. That is fine on login and account pages, and needs no change where you set it on purpose.

How to fix

Remove nofollow from the robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header of any page whose links search engines should follow. Leave it where you added it on purpose.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: directives.nofollow
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "directives.nofollow"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=directives.nofollow
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "directives.nofollow"
}