- Class
- C4 Informational
- Weight
- 0
- Severity on fail
- info
- Applies to
- Google and Bing
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Scope and evidence
Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement OPTIONAL.
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.
snippet_controls{url} uses {controls}. {effect}
data_nosnippet_unsupported_element{url} uses data-nosnippet on <{element}> at line {line}. Google supports it only on span, div and section, while Bing supports it on any element.
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.
Cited for context; no quote stored.
[G-ROBOTS-META] Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications · Using the data-nosnippet HTML attribute · last updated 2026-03-24
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tagCited for context; no quote stored.
[B-NOSNIPPET] Bing Introduces Support for the data-nosnippet HTML Attribute · · last updated posted 2025-10-15
https://blogs.bing.com/webmaster/October-2025/Bing-Introduces-Support-for-the-data-nosnippet-HTML-Attribute