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aeo.content-signal-blocks-answers

WarningAEO audit

A robots.txt Content-Signal line sets ai-input=no or search=no, asking answer engines not to use the pages in AI answers or search.

What to change

Set ai-input=yes and search=yes in the Content-Signal line if answer engines should use the content; ai-train=no can stay to opt out of training. Example: `Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-input=yes, ai-train=no`.

The documentation on contentsignals.org

A finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.

When it runs

Runs on every AEO audit: of a page, a crawl, a build directory or HTML. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points off the page's score.

The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.

Run it, or skip it

Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:

npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check aeo https://example.com --rule aeo.content-signal-blocks-answers

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.content-signal-blocks-answers"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.content-signal-blocks-answers on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.content-signal-blocks-answers"] to a tool.

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