Outside <head>
What This Means
Pages with a meta robots that is outside of the <head> element in the HTML. The meta robots should be within the <head> element, or search engines may ignore it. Google will typically still recognise meta robots such as a ‘noindex’ directive, even outside of the <head> element, however this should not be relied upon.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when pages have a meta robots tag placed outside of the <head> element in the HTML. Example:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head> ...
</head>
<meta name="robots" content=""noindex">
<body> ...
</body>
</html>How To Fix
To ensure that search engines follow specified directives, include meta robots tags in the <head> element of a page’s HTML.
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