Notranslate Directive

What This Means

The page contains notranslate in its meta robots tag. This tells Google Translate and Google's automatic translation features not to offer translated versions of the page in search results.

Why It Matters for SEO

Google sometimes offers a translated version of a page in search results for users in different language regions. The notranslate directive suppresses this. For content that is language-specific by design (e.g., English lessons where translation would defeat the purpose), this is appropriate. For most sites, it limits the reach of content to non-English-speaking audiences who might otherwise discover it through translated results.

What the Platform Checks

Checks for the notranslate value in meta robots content. Fires on detection.

How to Fix It

• Review whether suppressing translation is intentional for each flagged page.
• For general content pages: remove notranslate to allow Google to offer translated previews to international audiences.
• Valid use cases: language-learning content, legally jurisdiction-specific content where translation would be misleading.