Easily generate valid robots.txt rules to instruct Googlebot and other search engines on exactly what they should—and shouldn't—index on your site.
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Every day, thousands of automated bots crawl the internet. Some of these bots are highly desirable (like Googlebot, which indexes your site for Google Search). Others are less desirable (like scraping bots or aggressive AI training spiders).
A robots.txt file is the internet standard (known as the Robots Exclusion Protocol) for politely asking these bots what they are allowed to look at.
The User-Agent string identifies the specific bot you are talking to.
User-agent: * means the rule applies to all bots.User-agent: Googlebot means the rule applies only to Google's web crawler.The Disallow directive tells the bot which paths it should not crawl.
For example, Disallow: /admin/ prevents the bot from crawling any URL that starts with /admin/.
The Allow directive overrides a Disallow rule for a specific subdirectory.
For instance, you might Disallow: /assets/ to save crawl budget on large files, but Allow: /assets/public/ so a specific folder is still indexed.
You can include the absolute URL to your XML sitemap in the robots.txt file. This is highly recommended as it acts as a direct map for search engines to discover all your important pages.
Example: Sitemap: https://www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml
The most common setup for a public website.
User-agent: * Disallow:
Crucial for staging servers to prevent Google from indexing your unfinished site.
User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /private/
Recently, many sites have opted to block AI companies from scraping their content for training data.
User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: anthropic-ai Disallow: /
A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which URLs the crawler can access on your site. This is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests, or to keep non-public pages (like an admin panel) out of search results.
The robots.txt file must be placed at the root of your website host. For example, if your site is www.example.com, the file must be accessible at www.example.com/robots.txt.
Not entirely. While a 'Disallow' rule stops Google from crawling the page, if another website links to that page, Google might still index the URL. To truly hide a page from search results, you must use a 'noindex' meta tag on the page itself.
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