Ignore hints+related URLs in the next audit

19 votes

My use case:
I have an URL, which has noindex, nofollow and has no Tag Manager or GA code for a purpose.

I keep seeing this URL in Hints.

I´d like to have an option to mark a specific URL to be ignored in the specific Hint for the next time.

Under consideration Suggested by: Zdenek Dvorak [linki.cz] (05 Oct, '17) • Upvoted: 25 May • Comments: 6

Comments: 6

16 Oct, '17
hellemans
Yes, that would be very useful.
04 Nov, '17
Darren Merged
Id like to be able to ignore an issue for a specific URL. For example, in the URL is orphaned report, most of the URLS there are query string affiliate links. Id like to be able to just ignore them so i can more clearly see my SEO progress.
19 Aug, '18
Jen Drage Merged
If a developer is happy to live with certain hints for an audit or project, or across all projects, it would be great to have a way of Ignoring Hints. This would mean that the Hints that do need dealing with are easier to see without having to look through the whole list every time. And would mean that you could either deal with or ignore all of the hints and eventually run a successful audit with no hints, which would be nice.

When viewing the list of hints, there could be an 'ignore' toggl
27 Aug, '18
Admin
"Ignoring Hints for audits / projects / globally" (suggested by Jen Drage on 2018-08-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Aug, '20
Patrick Admin
"Ignore Issues" (suggested by Darren on 2017-11-04), including upvotes (5) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Jun, '21
Danielle Owens
When doing monthly crawls, there is no easy way to ignore individual URLs. For example, if there is a thank you page that is non-indexible, I don't want this to show up as an issues with each crawl. It's a pain in the butt to manually remove URLs from Google Sheets that are not actually an issue. This is especially a problem when sending all this data to a client. I have to manually remove any unnecessary URLs from the Google Sheets files.

And of course each site is very unique. I would like to be able to "ignore" individual URLs for a specific amount of time; 30 days, 12 months, etc. I would also like to be able to "ignore" individual URLs in some sections of the audit but not in others. For example, I would like to ignore the fact that a specific blog post has a short title but not ignore that that specific blog post has a noindex tag. Thank you for your time!