- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
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Scope and evidence
Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement SEARCH-ENGINE-SPECIFIC.
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.
combined{url} has more than one robots input ({inputs}); the effective result is {effective}.
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.
“In the case of conflicting robots rules, the more restrictive rule applies.”
[G-ROBOTS-META] Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications · · last updated 2026-03-24
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag“the search engine will use the sum of the negative rules”
[G-ROBOTS-META] Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications · · last updated 2026-03-24
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag