Discourage Search Engines – Dashboard notification

How Discourage Search Engines – Dashboard notification's 51/100 breaks down

Discourage Search Engines – Dashboard notification's overall score of 51/100 is a mid-tier result — the listing is functional but multiple categories have headroom, computed as the weighted average of 6 category checks. The spread is highly polarized across categories — 2 categories score above the headline number and 4 score below. The strongest category is Title Optimization (100/100, +49 vs overall); the weakest is Languages (0/100), a 51-point gap below the headline score — the largest single lever. Top three by score: Title Optimization (100), Categories & Discoverability (63), Visual Assets (50).

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