Add site-level robots.txt to allow crawler access - #11
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[WIP] Add robot.txt to allow robot scraping
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robots.txt to allow crawler access
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This PR adds an explicit site-wide robots.txt policy so crawlers have a defined, permissive rule set for the Hugo-generated site (published from static/ to the site root).
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static/robots.txtto be served as/robots.txt. - Configured a permissive rule allowing all user agents to crawl the entire site.
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The blog did not provide a
robots.txt, leaving crawler behavior undefined. This change adds an explicit policy that allows robots to crawl the entire site.Policy added
robots.txtatstatic/robots.txtso it is published at/robots.txt.Crawler behavior
User-agent: * Allow: /