Fix a page blocked from indexing (noindex)

This is the highest-severity SEO failure: a noindex directive removes the page from Google entirely. It is the classic Friday-deploy disaster — a staging noindex shipped to production silently deletes you from search.

How to fix

Remove the noindex from the meta robots tag and the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header on pages that should rank. Audit your build/staging config so the staging-only noindex can never reach production.

<!-- remove this on indexable pages -->
<meta name="robots" content="noindex">

# and check the response header
X-Robots-Tag: noindex   ← must NOT be present in prod

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Detected automatically by the SEOlvl SEO Health audit (check indexable). Run a free audit or see the full issue library.