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Hreflang to a noindex page

hreflang.noindex_urls
Priority
Medium
Severity
Warning

What we look for

The hreflang tags (lines in <head> listing the page's versions in other languages) on these pages point to a crawled page marked noindex (told search engines not to list it).

Why it matters

A version marked noindex will not appear in search results, so searchers in that language cannot be sent to it.

How to fix

Remove noindex from any language version you want found. For a version that should stay hidden, remove the hreflang tags that point at it, in the page template or the plugin that writes the tags.

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: hreflang.noindex_urls
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "hreflang.noindex_urls"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=hreflang.noindex_urls
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": "hreflang.noindex_urls"
}