Robots.txt Generator & Tester

Generate and test robots.txt files to control search engine crawling, manage bot access, and optimize your website's SEO indexing strategy. Essential for directing search engines, protecting sensitive content, and improving crawl efficiency.

Basic Configuration

Default Policy

Sitemap URL

Crawl Delay (seconds)

Optional: Delay between requests (0 = no delay)

Include commentsInclude host directive

User Agent Rules

robots.txt

4 directives1 user agentValid

Validation Results:

Robots.txt syntax is valid!
Remember to test with Google Search Console

# robots.txt generated by Robots.txt Generator
# This file tells search engines which pages they can and cannot crawl

User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Usage Instructions

Upload Location

Upload the generated robots.txt file to your website root: https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt

Testing

Use Google Search Console to test your robots.txt file and verify that search engines can access it correctly.

Important Note

Changes to robots.txt may take time to be processed by search engines. Monitor your crawl reports to ensure the changes are working as expected.

Quick Presets

Robots.txt SEO & Crawl Management Knowledge Base

What This Tool Delivers

Generate sophisticated robots.txt files with precise directives for controlling search engine bots, managing crawl budget, and optimizing indexing efficiency. The tool supports user-agent specific rules, disallow/allow directives for path control, crawl delay configuration, and sitemap integration.

Protect sensitive content, prevent duplicate indexing, and guide search engines to your most important pages while blocking access to administrative areas and temporary content. This helps optimize crawl budget allocation and ensures search engines focus on high-priority pages first.

User-agent specific rules for different bots
Disallow/Allow directives for path control
Crawl delay configuration for server protection
Sitemap integration for discovery enhancement
Built-in validation and syntax checking

Robots.txt Implementation & Security Best Practices

File Placement: The robots.txt file must be located at your website root (/robots.txt) with exact case-sensitive filename. It should be encoded as plain text with UTF-8 encoding and be publicly accessible without password protection.

Security Considerations: Robots.txt is publicly visible to all users, so never rely on it for sensitive content protection. Malicious bots may ignore all directives. Use server-side blocking for actual security and avoid exposing sensitive directory structures.

SEO Optimization: Include your XML sitemap location for discovery, use specific user-agent targeting when needed, and implement appropriate crawl delays for server health. Always test with Google Search Console and monitor crawl errors.

File Structure: One robots.txt file applies per domain or subdomain. Regular expressions are not supported in robots.txt files—use path patterns and wildcards instead.

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