January 2026 TL;DR Your site will be removed from Google search results if you don't have a robots.txt file or the Googlebot site crawler can't access it. Here's the video from Google Support that covers it: Wait, what? Adam Coster ran into a weird issue with site traffic and posted about it in the Shop Talk Show discord. Traffic incoming from Google looked like this: The issues seemed to be that Google wouldn't index the site without a robots.txt file. My first reaction: No fucking way. I can't...