Audit reference
WarningSEO

Noindex page receives internal links

What it means

These pages are marked noindex but are linked to from elsewhere on the site. The links spend crawl budget and pass value into a page that can never rank.

How to fix it

Decide which is wrong. If the page should rank, remove the noindex. If it should not, reduce how prominently it is linked (especially from navigation shown on every page), so crawl budget goes to pages that can earn traffic. Do not add nofollow to the links: that discards the value rather than redirecting it.

Finding it in CrawlStat

After a crawl, open Issues and pick Noindex page receives internal links. Click Show all in Pages to filter the Pages table to the affected pages, or Export affected to hand the list to whoever owns the fix. Audit ID: noindex_internal_links.