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I'm working on a site right now and having an issue with the robots.txt file restricting access to the sitemap - with no web dev to help, I'm wondering how I can fix the issue myself?

The robots.txt page shows

User-agent: *
Disallow: /
And then sitemap: with the correct sitemap link 

In an interesting article from January on content cannibalisation: https://ninjaoutreach.com/content-cannibalization-avoid/

there is the following paragraph:

"When the same keyword is used across a number of pages of a single website, Google’s spiders automatically get directed to a page with low-grade quality which in turn results in the low ranking of all the pages on the website."

Is this true? The suggestion here is that they automatically get directed there as a form of penalty. This seems like quite an extraordinary claim!

Can anyone verify?

You are a star, thank you!

OK, a local SEO question!

We are working with a plumbing company. A search for  (Google UK) shows the knowledge panel with 20+ reviews. This is good!

However, if you search for "plumbers norwich" and look at the map, thecompany is on the third page and has no reviews. I've logged into Google My Business, and it says the profile is not up to date and only 70% complete with no reviews. This is odd, as there was a fully complete profile recently.

Any ideas on how best to reconcile the two?

Thanks!

OK, a local SEO question!

We are working with a plumbing company. A search for  (Google UK) shows the knowledge panel with 20+ reviews. This is good!

However, if you search for "plumbers norwich" and look at the map, thecompany is on the third page and has no reviews. I've logged into Google My Business, and it says the profile is not up to date and only 70% complete with no reviews. This is odd, as there was a fully complete profile recently.

Any ideas on how best to reconcile the two?

Thanks!