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]
http://127.0.0.1:8006raptor 0.3.0, 17 Oct 2026Open 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 crawlprints 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_findingswith thischeck_idreturns 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" }