No Sitemap Directive
What This Means
The robots.txt file does not include a Sitemap directive. While search engines can discover sitemaps through other means, explicitly declaring your sitemap location helps ensure it’s found and processed.
What Triggers This Issue
This issue is triggered when the robots.txt file does not contain any line starting with ‘Sitemap:’ pointing to an XML sitemap URL.
How To Fix
Add a Sitemap directive to your robots.txt file pointing to your XML sitemap. For example: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml . You can include multiple Sitemap directives if you have multiple sitemaps.
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