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No robots.txt found

robots.txt is the standard way to tell crawlers which paths to skip and where to find sitemaps.

Why it matters

Without robots.txt, you can't reference your sitemap or block crawlers from /admin, /api, etc.

Authoritative reference

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

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