Nosnippet Directive

Detects pages preventing search engine snippets

Solution

The nosnippet directive prevents search engines from showing descriptions in search results, severely harming click-through rates.

Found in: <meta name="robots" content="nosnippet"> Or: <meta name="robots" content="max-snippet:0">

This is almost always unintentional. Remove unless you specifically need to hide snippets (e.g., login pages, legal content).

Note: max-snippet:N where N > 0 is fine (sets snippet character limit).

Enable / Disable

Disable this rule

[rules]
disable = ["core/nosnippet"]

Disable all Core SEO rules

[rules]
disable = ["core/*"]

Enable only this rule

[rules]
enable = ["core/nosnippet"]
disable = ["*"]