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Image opt-out (noimageindex)

directives.noimageindex
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What we look for

These pages carry a noimageindex rule (a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header asking search engines not to list the page's images).

Why it matters

The images on these pages will not appear in image search results. That suits private or licensed images, and there it needs no change.

How to fix

Remove noimageindex from the robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header of any page whose images should appear in image search. 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.noimageindex
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.noimageindex"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=directives.noimageindex
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.noimageindex"
}