Audit rules
Images Blocked From Indexing
A noimageindex directive for all robots or for Googlebot keeps the images of the page out of image search. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure of this rule has info 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.noimageindexInfo01 — 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.noimageindex- Group
- Indexing
- Severity of a failure
- Info
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
- Replaces the check
meta_robots_images, header_robots_images
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- noimageindex present → review
- Exceptions
- —
Sources and Project Decision
- Sources
- Robots meta tag, data-nosnippet, and X-Robots-Tag specifications (Google Search Central, Q36)
- Project decision
- Severity info 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
- Links Not Followedindexing.nofollow_page
- 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