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Page Has nofollow Directive — Links on This Page Will Not Pass SEO Value

The robots meta tag includes "nofollow", preventing link equity distribution.

What's the issue?

Your page has a nofollow directive in the robots meta tag. This tells search engines not to follow any links on this page, meaning links won't pass "link equity" (also known as "link juice" or "PageRank").

What nofollow does

Search engines won't crawl links on this page for discovery purposes
Links won't pass PageRank to their destination pages
It affects all links on the page (unlike individual rel="nofollow" on specific links)

When nofollow is appropriate

User-generated content — Forum posts, comments, where you can't vouch for linked sites
Paid links — Sponsored content or advertisements
Untrusted content — Pages that aggregate third-party links
Login/registration pages — Where crawling links adds no SEO value

When nofollow is harmful

Your own internal links — You want search engines to follow links to your own content
Navigation pages — Sitemaps, category pages, hubs
Content pages — Blog posts, articles, product pages with valuable internal links
Homepage — Almost never should have nofollow

How to fix it (if unintentional)

<!-- Remove nofollow -->
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

<!-- Change to -->
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />

Alternative: per-link nofollow

If you only want to nofollow specific links (not all), use the rel attribute on individual links instead:

<!-- Only this link is nofollowed -->
<a href="https://example.com" rel="nofollow">External Link</a>

<!-- Other links on the page are followed normally -->
<a href="/about">About Us</a>

Check your Open Graph tags

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og:title Is Too Short

Short titles may not be descriptive enough for social sharing.

Missing og:description

The og:description tag provides a summary of the page content for social platforms.

og:description Is Too Long

Descriptions over 160 characters may be truncated on social platforms.

og:description Is Too Short

Short descriptions miss the opportunity to engage users.

OpenGraph MCP Server

Inspect OG tags directly from your editor

The OpenGraph MCP server lets you inspect and analyze Open Graph meta tags directly from your AI-powered editor or assistant. It provides two tools:

inspect_og — Fetch and score OG tags for any URL
suggest_og_tags — Generate recommended meta tag HTML

Add the server to your project's .cursor/mcp.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opengraph": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "opengraph-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Cursor after adding the configuration.

Add to your .vscode/mcp.json file (requires GitHub Copilot extension):

{
  "servers": {
    "opengraph": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "opengraph-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Make sure you have GitHub Copilot with MCP support enabled.

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opengraph": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "opengraph-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

The config file is at ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json on macOS or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json on Windows.

Add to your ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json file:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "opengraph": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "opengraph-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Windsurf after modifying the configuration.

Add to your Zed settings.json under context_servers:

{
  "context_servers": {
    "opengraph": {
      "command": {
        "path": "npx",
        "args": ["-y", "opengraph-mcp"]
      }
    }
  }
}

Open settings with Cmd+, and add the configuration.

Usage examples

▶ "Inspect the OG tags of github.com"

▶ "Suggest OG meta tags for my website https://example.com"

▶ "Check if my blog post has proper Open Graph tags"