Avoid nosnippet on important pages
SkillSearchnosnippet is a skill for auditing robots meta tags. It checks whether pages have the correct robots meta tags so they show descriptions in search results. It applies to any important landing page, article, or product page that should appear with a description in search results.
Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.
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Have an AI agent that can load and use skills.
Then ask your AI: use the Avoid nosnippet on important pages skill
What your AI can do with it
- Audit robots meta tags on a page
- Check whether a page shows a description in search results
- Apply to landing pages, articles, and product pages
Getting started
- Have an AI agent that can load and use skills.
- Add the nosnippet skill to the agent's available skills.
- Give the agent the URL or content of the page to audit.
- Ask the agent to check the robots meta tags on that page.
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by thedaviddias/front-end-checklist in skills/nosnippet/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Pages with nosnippet display without a description in search results, reducing click-through rates and making it harder for users to understand whether the result is relevant to their query.
Quick Reference
- nosnippet prevents Google from showing a description under your title in search results
- Pages without snippets have significantly lower click-through rates
- Use max-snippet:-1 to explicitly allow unlimited snippet length instead
- Only use nosnippet deliberately on legally sensitive content
Check
Check the tag and X-Robots-Tag response header for each important page. Flag any that contain 'nosnippet' or 'max-snippet:0'. Confirm these pages intentionally suppress snippets.
Fix
Remove 'nosnippet' from the content attribute on important pages. Replace with 'max-snippet:-1' to explicitly allow full-length snippets, or simply omit snippet directives to use the default (allowed).
Explain
The nosnippet directive tells Google not to display a text snippet (description) for your page in search results. Without a snippet, users see only the page title and URL—this reduces click-through rates and is rarely the intended behaviour for content pages.
Code Review
Check all pages for tags. Parse the content value and flag any that include 'nosnippet' or 'max-snippet:0'. Generate a report of affected URLs, their page type, and whether the nosnippet directive is intentional. Also check X-Robots-Tag response headers.
For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see references/rule.md.
Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/seo/nosnippet
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 74k
- Forks
- 7k
- Last commit
- Aug 2026
Questions
- When should this skill be used?
- Use it when auditing robots meta tags, especially on any important landing page, article, or product page that should appear with a description in search results.
- What does the skill check?
- It checks whether pages have correct robots meta tags so they show descriptions in search results.
Advanced
- Item type
- skill
- Key
nosnippet- Source
- github.com/thedaviddias/front-end-checklist