A crawl tells you what is true. This decides what is worth doing. Roughly half of all logged crawl triage is a human concluding a finding does not matter — a noindex on a paginated archive is the site working correctly, and the same noindex on a service page is a page removed from Google. Every dismissal below carries its reason, because a dismissal nobody can audit is indistinguishable from a bug.
fix noindex on money · 1 URL(s) · P1 · evidence: observed
noindex on a page that can earn removes it from Google entirely — the single highest-impact crawl finding there is
https://c.example/services/laser-hair-removal/dismiss noindex on paginated · 1 URL(s) · evidence: observed
noindex is CORRECT on a paginated listing — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
https://c.example/blog/page/2/dismiss noindex on archive · 1 URL(s) · evidence: observed
noindex is CORRECT on a tag / category / date archive — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
https://c.example/tag/botox/dismiss noindex on thankyou · 1 URL(s) · evidence: observed
noindex is CORRECT on a post-submission thank-you page — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
https://c.example/thank-you/wiki disabled (--no-wiki)
Crawl-finding disposition · crawl-finding-disposition
verdict: PASS
captured: 2026-08-31T12:11:57.668Z
4 finding(s) · 1 fix · 0 needs-human · 3 dismiss
[info] 3 of 4 finding(s) (75%) need no work — each with a stated reason. That is the half of crawl triage that was being done by hand
REMEDIATION QUEUE (fix, most severe first)
P1 noindex https://c.example/services/laser-hair-removal/
DISMISSED, WITH THE REASON (this is the half that used to be done by hand)
noindex ×1 on paginated
noindex is CORRECT on a paginated listing — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
noindex ×1 on archive
noindex is CORRECT on a tag / category / date archive — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
noindex ×1 on thankyou
noindex is CORRECT on a post-submission thank-you page — it is deliberately kept out of the index, and removing it would be the defect
crawl-finding-disposition PLAYBOOK
wiki disabled (--no-wiki)