- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
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Scope and evidence
Evaluated on fetched pages. The book marks this requirement SUPPORTED.
Observations
Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.
inventory{url} carries noindex via {directive_source}{intended_clause}.
Sources, quoted
These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.
“with either a <meta> tag or HTTP response header”
[G-NOINDEX] Block Search indexing with noindex · Implementing noindex · last updated 2025-12-10
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/block-indexing