Obsolete NOODP Directive
What This Means
The page contains noodp in its meta robots tag. This was a directive that told search engines not to use the Open Directory Project (DMOZ) description for the page's search snippet. DMOZ closed in March 2017 and the directive has had no effect since then.
Why It Matters for SEO
The noodp directive is completely harmless but represents legacy markup that adds unnecessary noise to the robots tag. Cleaning it up is a markup hygiene issue — it signals outdated templates that may contain other legacy or unmaintained code. It also slightly bloats the meta robots content attribute without serving any purpose.
What the Platform Checks
Checks meta robots content for the noodp value. Fires on detection.
How to Fix It
Remove noodp from all meta robots tags. This is purely a cleanup — it has no functional effect on crawling or indexation since DMOZ no longer exists. Find every occurrence in your CMS templates or SEO plugin settings and remove it.
Clean up obsoletenoodp directives
The audit identifies every page with legacy noodp directives so you can clean up templates.