# Nosnippet

> Nosnippet is an Agent Skill for business published in the thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Use when auditing robots meta tags. Applies to any important landing page, article, or product page that should appear with a description in search results.

- Skill name: `nosnippet`
- Category: [Business](https://www.openparable.com/skill/business/1)
- Source: https://github.com/thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist/blob/HEAD/skills/nosnippet/SKILL.md
- Repository: thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist (73,218 GitHub stars when collected)

## SKILL.md

# Avoid nosnippet on important pages

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 <meta name='robots'> 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 <meta name='robots'> 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 <meta name='robots' content='...'> 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.

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For full implementation details, code examples, and framework-specific guidance,
see `references/rule.md`.

Rule page: https://frontendchecklist.io/en/rules/seo/nosnippet

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Source: https://www.openparable.com/skill/business/nosnippet (OpenParable). Cite the canonical URL above.