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Preview opt-out (nosnippet)

directives.nosnippet
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What we look for

These pages carry a nosnippet rule (a robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header asking search engines not to show a text preview under the page's link).

Why it matters

Search results for these pages show no description, which can mean fewer clicks. Some sites choose this on purpose, and there it needs no change.

How to fix

Remove nosnippet from the robots meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header of any page that should show a preview in search results. Keep it where you chose 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.nosnippet
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.nosnippet"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=directives.nosnippet
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.nosnippet"
}