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No robots.txt File on WordPress

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 WordPress

Use the page editor, theme, or SEO tooling depending on where this issue lives.

  1. 1Inspect the page and theme output.
  2. 2Apply the fix in the most direct place.
  3. 3Publish and validate with a re-audit.

After you fix it

  • Navigate to /robots.txt and confirm it returns a 200 response with valid directives

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