CHECK GLOSSARY · ROBOTS-001

No sitemap in robots.txt

In plain words: Declaring the sitemap in robots.txt speeds up discovery by every crawler.

How to fix it

Add a Sitemap: line with the absolute sitemap URL.

Official sources

• Google: robots.txt

Related checks

• SITEMAP-001: Broken URLs in sitemap
• SITEMAP-002: Sitemap missing lastmod
• ROBOTS-002: robots.txt blocks CSS/JS
• BROKEN-001: Broken internal links

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