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No robots.txt File on Squarespace
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 Squarespace
Check page settings, navigation, and code injection.
- 1Identify whether this is page-level or site-level.
- 2Apply the fix.
- 3Republish and confirm.
After you fix it
- ✓Navigate to /robots.txt and confirm it returns a 200 response with valid directives
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