Page-level nofollow blocks link discovery

What this means

A page-level nofollow directive tells Google to ignore every link on the page. Anything reachable only through this page loses its discovery path, and no internal link equity flows onward. Page-level nofollow is almost always over-broad — the per-link rel attribute is the right tool when only some links should be discounted.

How to fix it

Remove nofollow from the page-level robots directive and, where genuinely needed, apply rel="nofollow" (or rel="ugc"/"sponsored") to the specific links instead.

Fix effort

This check needs review: the change can be drafted for you, but a person has to approve the wording or choose the target before it ships.

Authoritative source

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/robots-meta-tag