Audit rules
Links Not Followed
A page-level nofollow or none directive for all robots or for Googlebot asks crawlers not to follow any link on the page. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has warning severity and counts against the score. Below are the exact condition, its exceptions and the sources behind it, followed by the other rules of the same group.
indexing.nofollow_pageWarning01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
indexing.nofollow_page- Group
- Indexing
- Severity of a failure
- Warning
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- nofollow or none at page level → review
- Exceptions
- —
Sources and Project Decision
- Sources
- Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications (Google Search Central, Q36)
- Project decision
- Severity warning is a project decision [D].
02 — Indexing
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- Contradictory Robots Directivesindexing.contradictory_directives
- llms.txt Fileindexing.llms_txt
- Images Blocked From Indexingindexing.noimageindex
- Page Blocked From Indexingindexing.noindex
- Blocked by robots.txtindexing.robots_txt_blocked
- robots.txt Missingindexing.robots_txt_missing
- Not Indexed in Search Consoleindexing.search_console
- Sitemap Not Declared in robots.txtindexing.sitemap_not_declared
- Soft 404indexing.soft_404