Robots.txt Generator

About the Robots.txt Generator

robots.txt tells well-behaved crawlers which paths they may fetch. It does not hide private content securely, and it does not guarantee indexing — but a correct file keeps bots out of admin areas, APIs, and duplicate parameter URLs while pointing them to your sitemap.

What a good robots.txt usually includes

• User-agent rules (often * for all bots)
• Disallow paths you do not want crawled
• Optional Allow exceptions
• A Sitemap: absolute URL

How to use this generator

1. Choose which paths should be blocked (for example /admin/, /api/, internal search).
2. Add your sitemap URL if you have one.
3. Generate the file contents.
4. Save it as robots.txt at the site root (https://example.com/robots.txt).
5. Test with Google Search Console / Bing URL tools after deploy.

Important limitations

• Blocking a URL in robots.txt is not the same as noindex. Crawlers that never fetch the page may still discover the URL via links.
• Malicious bots ignore robots.txt. Use auth and server rules for real protection.
• Do not block CSS/JS that Google needs to render the page unless you understand the impact.

Tips

• Never list a URL in your sitemap and then disallow it in robots.txt.
• Use absolute sitemap URLs including https://.
• Keep staging sites locked down separately (auth or non-index headers), not only with a copied production robots file.

FAQ

Will robots.txt boost rankings? No. It only manages crawl access. Rankings still depend on content quality and links.

Where must the file live? At the host root path /robots.txt for that hostname.