aeo.page-error

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. An error is a problem that keeps a page out of search or out of answers, or breaks how it shows there. Each finding takes 15 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.page-error

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_aeo_audit:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "aeo.page-error"
  ]
}

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

• 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.noindexThe page is set to noindex, so answer engines that draw on a search index cannot cite it.
• 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.