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Browsing: robots.txt
A page that does not appear in Yandex Search is not necessarily broken or penalized. Learn to read the stated reason in Yandex Webmaster, verify the evidence, and decide whether to fix the issue, intentionally leave the page excluded, or wait for the system to reassess it.
A URL can be in your sitemap and still not appear on Bing. Check the version Bing has recorded, test the live URL, and review robots.txt, noindex, canonical tags, redirects, 404s, and server errors.
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