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No robots.txt File on Shopify
Your site is missing a robots.txt file. Search engine crawlers look for this file to understand which pages they can and cannot access.
Issue ID: CRAWL-ROBOTS-PRESENT-001Severity: moderateEffort: S
Why this matters
Your site is missing a robots.txt file. Search engine crawlers look for this file to understand which pages they can and cannot access. This affects how clearly search engines understand the page and how persuasive it looks in search results.
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How to fix this on Shopify
Use theme settings, page settings, or theme code.
- 1Find the source of the issue in Shopify admin.
- 2Apply the change.
- 3Preview and publish.
After you fix it
- ✓Navigate to /robots.txt and confirm it returns a 200 response with valid directives
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