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Rule · Indexing controls

Intended URLs carry no noindex

SEO-IDX-06C1 Mechanism· w8gate: indexingscanner

Class
C1 Mechanism
Weight
8
Severity on fail
critical
Applies to
Google

Test this rule on a live site with the XML sitemap checker or the noindex checker. Free, no account needed.

Scope and evidence

Evaluated on members of I with a final 200. The book marks this requirement SUPPORTED (mechanism), applied to stated intent, and the scanner treats it as a gate: indexing rule: a failure on an intended page removes that page from the eligible set instead of entering the achieved share.

When intent was inferred (no sitemap, no include patterns), noindexed pages are not in I, so this rule can fail only for the home page. {intent_source} is "it is in {sitemap}", "it matches include pattern {pattern}" or "it is the home page".

Fail conditions

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.

  • noindex

    {url} is listed as a page you want indexed ({intent_source}), but it carries {directive} via {directive_source}. For Google, noindex means: 'Do not show this page, media, or resource in search results.'

  • noindex_after_renderrequires rendered

    {url} has no noindex in its server HTML, but JavaScript adds {directive} after rendering. If Google renders the page, it will see this rule.

  • unavailable_after_passed

    {url} carries unavailable_after: {date}, which has passed. Google does not show the page in search results after that date.

The documented fix

Remove the directive, or remove the URL from sitemaps and include patterns if it should stay out of search.

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.