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robots.txt has no absolute Sitemap: line

seo/robots-sitemap-directivewarnvoid seoupdated

Why it matters

The Sitemap directive is how crawlers other than Google (Bing, AI search crawlers) find your sitemap; it must be an absolute URL.

How to fix it

Return sitemap: 'https://your.site/sitemap.xml' from app/robots.ts.

References

void seo reports 60 rules in this category. What search engines need from the raw response: status codes, titles and descriptions in <head>, self-referencing canonicals, one h1, crawlable links, Open Graph, icons, robots.txt and a sitemap with real dates.