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Search Console can't fetch my sitemap

Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me can assist us with our SiteMap / Google Crawling issue.

website: ez-robot.com

I tried submitting the sitemap to Google's Search Console and got a "couldn't fetch" error.  

I then attempted to have GSC do a URL inspection of my home page and other pages on our site.  Initially GSC said it could see those pages, so I requested indexing.  This prompted GSC to do a test, and it said the URLs weren't accessible to Google. 

Further details said:  

Crawl allowed?     error       No: blocked by robots.txt
Page fetch        error            Failed: Blocked by robots.txt
 
Within our SEO tools (on Weebly), I have ensured that the "Hide from Search Engines was deactivated".  I saved and repiublished the site.  I checked the /robots.text for the site and am getting this, which seems standard, and like the website shouldn't be blocking GSC:
Sitemap: https://www.ez-robot.com/sitemap.xml

User-agent: NerdyBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /ajax/
Disallow: /apps/
 
Is there somewhere else that I need to make changes? 
 
Also, the website had already been verified by GSC through the Domain Hosting Company (GoDaddy) so I don't see a place to try to get the HTML code to paste in, as an alternate form of verification... I don't think the verification is the issue though.
 
I have Google Analytics currently working on the site, if that's beneficial info.
 
Any help would be appreciated.  We've recently ported our site to Weebly, and have changed a huge percentage of our URLs and content, so I'd love to get crawled by Google quickly, so we don't get lost.
 
Thanks,
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This is typical for all Weebly websites, and it shouldn't affect the rest of your site, or block search engines from indexing your site. 

You can find more info on this thread. 

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@Dennis5 If you've rebuilt your site on Weebly but have modified the urls for a number of the pages on the prior website, you should employ 301 redirects to ensure that you don't lose any site traffic as a result of the migration/rebuild. In the Site Editor, click "Settings" and then SEO in the left-hand sidebar then scroll down to the 301 redirects section and start adding the old urls and the current (Weebly site) urls to which they should redirect.

https://www.weebly.com/app/help/us/en/topics/how-to-301-redirect-an-old-page-to-a-new-weebly-page

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