{"id":"025d5d11-93ad-4499-9270-2bb12353105a","task":"Configure snippet and preview control directives to manage how content is quoted in search results","domain":"robots-directives","steps":["Distinguish directive layers: robots.txt controls crawling access, while meta robots/X-Robots-Tag and data-nosnippet control what's shown from an already-indexed page","Add nosnippet to a meta robots tag or X-Robots-Tag header to suppress all text/video snippets for a page","Use max-snippet:[number], max-image-preview:[standard|large|none], and max-video-preview:[number] to cap preview sizes without fully suppressing them","Wrap specific on-page HTML elements in a data-nosnippet attribute to exclude just that fragment (e.g., a price or disclaimer) from snippets while allowing the rest of the page to be quoted","Test with URL Inspection or a live fetch and confirm the served snippet respects the directive combination"],"gotchas":["When directives conflict, the most restrictive one wins — combining nosnippet with max-snippet is redundant since nosnippet fully overrides it","These directives only affect how an already-crawlable, indexable page is displayed; they don't stop crawling (that's robots.txt) or stop indexing (that's noindex)","data-nosnippet only suppresses that fragment from snippets — it doesn't remove the content from the index or necessarily from AI summarization of the full rendered page"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-08T14:29:42.075Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/025d5d11-93ad-4499-9270-2bb12353105a"}