Search opt-out (noindex)

directives.noindex
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What we look for

These pages carry a noindex rule (a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header that tells search engines not to list the page).

Why it matters

Search engines will leave these pages out of their results. That is right for thank-you pages and admin screens, and costly on pages you want found.

How to fix

Remove noindex from the robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header of any page you want in search results. Leave it on pages that should stay hidden.

Seen in a real crawl

From a crawl of Fernhollow Outdoor, a test site built for this site’s demo.

Note

1 page asks search engines not to list it

  • /waterproofs/Directives: [index, follow, noindex]
Paths on http://127.0.0.1:8006raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026

Open this finding in that crawl’s report

It also fired on Millbrook Hardware.

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.noindex
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.noindex"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=directives.noindex
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.noindex"
}