Site has <meta robots noai> - explicitly opted out of AI training
This is an on-page HTML tag, <meta name="robots" content="noai">, that explicitly tells AI systems not to use the page for training. This check found the tag present on your site, meaning someone, or some template, has deliberately, or by default, opted your content out of AI training. This directive drops your AI citation rate to roughly zero by design, since compliant AI systems treat it as a hard opt-out. That's the correct outcome if your business genuinely intends to keep content out of AI training, for example paywalled or licensed content, but it's a significant, often invisible cost if the tag was left over from a generic template and nobody actually chose it. Your marketing strategist needs about 5 minutes to check intent, and your developer a similar amount of time to act on it. If the opt-out is deliberate, for instance for paywalled or regulated content, document the decision and leave it in place. If it was accidental, remove the noai directive to restore normal AI visibility.
Why this matters
This directive drops your AI citation rate to roughly zero by design, since compliant AI systems treat it as a hard opt-out. That's the correct outcome if your business genuinely intends to keep content out of AI training, for example paywalled or licensed content, but it's a significant, often invisible cost if the tag was left over from a generic template and nobody actually chose it.
How to fix it
Your marketing strategist needs about 5 minutes to check intent, and your developer a similar amount of time to act on it. If the opt-out is deliberate, for instance for paywalled or regulated content, document the decision and leave it in place. If it was accidental, remove the noai directive to restore normal AI visibility.