GitHub Add to your assistant
Menu

rendering.noindex-client-only

ErrorSEO audit--render

A noindex directive is injected by JavaScript. Google applies it when it renders the page, which removes the page from the index.

What to change

Remove the client-side noindex (often a framework/head-manager default or an auth guard) or move the decision to the server.

The documentation on developers.google.com

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 with --render, on the command or the local server. 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 audit https://example.com --render --rule rendering.noindex-client-only

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_audit_page:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "render": true,
  "rules": [
    "rendering.noindex-client-only"
  ]
}

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

All 12 rules