This best practices gives us a pretty good breakdown of how we can guide search engines more, including linking to a sitemap

https://www.searchenginewatch.com/2019/03/21/robotstxt-best-practice-guide/

https://www.advancedhtml.co.uk/robots-sitemaps.htm/

I suspect that we can gain a lot of power by setting this up. It will also be work looking into how Facebook publishes its "Public preview"

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We should add SEO as a label. Not sure what category it would go under.

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How about this for the robots.txt?

User-Agent: *
Disallow: /admin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /groups/create
Disallow: /blog/edit/new
Disallow: /notifications

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@markeharding is going to take care of this one. We don't need to worry about the robots.txt, but he'll generate a new site map within SSR

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