site.sitemap-noindex-page
The sitemap lists pages that are set to noindex.
What to change
Either remove noindex (if the page should rank) or remove the URL from the sitemap. Conflicting signals waste crawl budget.
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. 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 crawl https://example.com --rule site.sitemap-noindex-page
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"site.sitemap-noindex-page"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.sitemap-noindex-page on the command, or disableRules: ["site.sitemap-noindex-page"] to a tool.
More in Site-wide checks
All 49 rules- Info
site.sitemap-lastmod-futureSitemap <lastmod> values lie in the future. Google uses lastmod only when it is consistently accurate. - Info
site.sitemap-lastmod-missingA sitemap lists URLs but gives none of them a <lastmod>, so search engines cannot tell which pages changed. Bing calls lastmod a key signal for what to crawl again; Google uses it when it is consistently accurate. - Info
site.sitemap-lastmod-uniformEvery URL of a sitemap of 10 or more has the same <lastmod> date and time, which is the time the sitemap was built rather than when each page changed. Bing asks sites not to set lastmod to the sitemap's build time, and Google ignores lastmod values that are not accurate. - Info
site.sitemap-other-hostThe site's sitemaps list URLs on other hosts. Google accepts them only for hosts verified in Search Console or whose own robots.txt names the sitemap. - Warning
site.sitemap-non-canonicalThe sitemap lists URLs whose canonical points to a different URL. - Error
site.sitemap-broken-urlThe sitemap lists URLs that return 4xx/5xx. - Warning
site.sitemap-redirecting-urlThe sitemap lists URLs that redirect. - Info
site.not-in-sitemapIndexable pages discovered by crawling are not listed in the sitemap.