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robots.txt blocks all crawlers

A blanket Disallow: / removes the entire site from search. Correct on staging, catastrophic on production.

Why it matters

User-agent: * with Disallow: / blocks Google completely. If this is a staging environment that's fine; on production it deletes you from search.

Example fix

# Blocks everything — remove on production\nUser-agent: *\nDisallow: /\n\n# Allow crawling instead\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /

Authoritative reference

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

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