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robots.txt blocks Google-Extended

Your robots.txt disallows Google-Extended across the whole site, so it cannot read or cite any of your pages.

Why it matters

If this is intentional (privacy, training opt-out) that's fine. If you want AI citations, this prevents them.

Example fix

# robots.txt — let Google-Extended crawl the site
User-agent: googleExtended
Allow: /

# ...or block only specific sections instead of everything:
# User-agent: googleExtended
# Disallow: /admin/

Authoritative reference

https://platform.openai.com/docs/gptbot

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