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Detects pages preventing search engine snippets
Rule IDcore/nosnippet
CategoryCore SEO
ScopePer-page
Severitywarning
Weight7/10

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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).

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Enable / Disable

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Disable this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["core/nosnippet"]

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Disable all Core SEO rules

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["core/*"]

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Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["core/nosnippet"]
disable = ["*"]