What it measures

This check looks for meta robot directives that restrict AI usage — including noai, noimageai, and noindex in both meta tags and X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers.

Why it matters for AI

These directives tell AI systems not to use your content. While this is useful for protecting proprietary content, many sites have these set accidentally (often inherited from SEO templates) and don't realise they're blocking AI citation.

Directive	Effect	Impact
noai	AI systems should not use this content	Content won't appear in AI answers
noimageai	AI should not use images for training	Images excluded from AI training
noindex	Don't index this page at all	Page invisible to all search including AI

How to improve

1. Remove noai/noimageai — If you want AI systems to cite your content, these should be removed
2. Check for inherited directives — SEO plugins and templates sometimes add these by default
3. Be strategic with noindex — Use it only for pages that truly shouldn't be indexed (admin pages, thank-you pages)
4. Check X-Robots-Tag headers — Directives can be set at the server level without any HTML changes