aeo.noai
The page sets noai or noimageai, directives no major answer engine documents support for.
What to change
To opt out of AI training, say so in robots.txt (a `User-Agent: __usage_ai-training` group with `Disallow: /`, or groups for GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Google-Extended). If the page should appear in AI answers, remove noai to avoid mixed signals.
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. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point 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.noai
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"aeo.noai"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable aeo.noai on the command, or disableRules: ["aeo.noai"] to a tool.
More in AI answer engines
All 32 rules- Warning
aeo.nosnippetnosnippet (or max-snippet:0) keeps the page's text out of Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode and limits what Copilot can cite. - Info
aeo.max-snippet-shortmax-snippet is below 100 characters, which also caps what Google quotes in AI Overviews and AI Mode. - Warning
aeo.noarchivenoarchive keeps the page out of Microsoft Copilot answers; Bing still lists it in search. - Info
aeo.nocachenocache limits Microsoft Copilot to the page's URL, title and snippet. - Info
aeo.data-nosnippetdata-nosnippet hides a large share of the page's text (20% or more) from snippets and AI Overviews. - Warning
aeo.text-needs-javascriptThe HTML is an empty JavaScript app shell; most AI crawlers do not run JavaScript, so they see no content. - Info
aeo.question-not-answered-firstA heading asks a question but no short, direct answer follows it. - Info
aeo.unstructured-textA long page (600+ words) has no subheadings, lists or tables.