Obsolete NOYDIR Directive
What This Means
The page contains noydir in its meta robots tag. This was a directive telling Yahoo not to use its directory descriptions for SERP snippets. Yahoo's directory (Yahoo! Directory) was shut down in December 2014.
Why It Matters for SEO
Like noodp, the noydir directive is completely obsolete and has had no effect since 2014. It is a markup hygiene issue — outdated code in templates that should be removed. Pages inheriting these directives from CMS templates may be using years-old, unmaintained templates.
What the Platform Checks
Checks meta robots content for the noydir value. Fires on detection.
How to Fix It
Remove noydir from all meta robots tags. Search your CMS templates and SEO plugin settings for "noydir" and remove it. No functional consequence — this is purely legacy cleanup.
Clean up obsoletenoydir directives
The audit flags every page with legacy noydir directives as part of an overall markup hygiene check.