aeo.noindex

What to change

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.noindex

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.noindex"
  ]
}

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

• Erroraeo.page-errorThe page answers with an error status or could not be fetched, so no crawler can read it.
• Infoaeo.page-truncatedThe page is larger than the audit reads (5 MB; 2 MB on the hosted server), so only its first part was audited.
• Warningaeo.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.
• Infoaeo.max-snippet-shortmax-snippet is below 100 characters, which also caps what Google quotes in AI Overviews and AI Mode.
• Warningaeo.noarchivenoarchive keeps the page out of Microsoft Copilot answers; Bing still lists it in search.
• Infoaeo.nocachenocache limits Microsoft Copilot to the page's URL, title and snippet.
• Infoaeo.noaiThe page sets noai or noimageai, directives no major answer engine documents support for.
• Infoaeo.data-nosnippetdata-nosnippet hides a large share of the page's text (20% or more) from snippets and AI Overviews.