site.links-to-noindex
Pages set to noindex are linked from other pages of the site. A noindex page that much of the site links to is often noindex by mistake. Cart, search, login and account pages are left out.
What to change
Check that each listed page should stay out of search results. If the noindex is deliberate (login, cart, internal search), leave it; otherwise remove the noindex.
The documentation on developers.google.comA 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 a crawl or a build directory. 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 crawl https://example.com --rule site.links-to-noindexOr from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"site.links-to-noindex"
]
}To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.links-to-noindex on the command, or disableRules: ["site.links-to-noindex"] to a tool.
More in Site-wide checks
All 49 rules- Error
site.canonical-target-brokenPages name a canonical URL that answers 4xx/5xx or does not load, so search engines cannot use it. - Warning
site.canonical-target-redirectsPages name a canonical URL that redirects; the canonical should be the final URL. - Warning
site.canonical-target-noindexPages name as canonical a page that is set to noindex, so the page meant to be indexed is kept out of the index. - Warning
site.canonical-chainA page's canonical points to a page whose own canonical points somewhere else (A to B to C). - Warning
site.hreflang-target-invalidhreflang alternates point to URLs that are broken, redirect, are noindex or name another URL as canonical, so the annotation is ignored. - Warning
site.url-variant-duplicateA page also answers 200 at its URL with the trailing slash added or removed, or with the path in another case, without redirecting or naming the page as canonical. Google treats each spelling as a separate URL. - Warning
site.parameter-duplicatesCrawled URLs that differ only in their query string show the same text, and none names one of them as canonical. - Warning
site.broken-imagesImages on the pages point to URLs that answer 4xx/5xx or do not load.