Indexability Conflicts

Detects conflicting signals between robots.txt and meta/headers


Rule ID	`crawl/indexability-conflicts`
Category	Crawlability
Scope	Site-wide
Severity	warning
Weight	4/10

Solution

Conflicting signals confuse search engines and indicate configuration errors. Type 1 conflict: robots.txt allows BUT meta/header has noindex (works but confusing - choose one method). Type 2 conflict: robots.txt disallows BUT page crawlable (search engines can’t crawl to see noindex anyway - remove unnecessary noindex or allow in robots.txt).

Enable / Disable

Disable this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/indexability-conflicts"]

Disable all Crawlability rules

squirrel.toml

toml

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

Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
enable = ["crawl/indexability-conflicts"]
disable = ["*"]

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