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Detects conflicting signals between robots.txt and meta/headers
Rule IDcrawl/indexability-conflicts
CategoryCrawlability
ScopeSite-wide
Severitywarning
Weight4/10

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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).

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Enable / Disable

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Disable this rule

squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["crawl/indexability-conflicts"]

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Disable all Crawlability rules

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

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Enable only this rule

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