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SEO Jul 30, 2026 4 min read

robots.txt and XML Sitemaps: The Setup That Gets Pages Indexed (and the Five Mistakes That Stop It)

What robots.txt and XML sitemaps do, how to write them, how search engines really use them, and the five mistakes that quietly keep pages out of Google.

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