Robots.txt Generator
About Robots.txt Generator
Our Robots.txt Generator creates a properly formatted robots.txt file for your website in seconds. This essential file tells search engine crawlers which pages to index and which to ignore, giving you precise control over your site's crawl budget.
A correctly configured robots.txt prevents search engines from wasting crawl budget on low-value pages like admin areas, thank you pages, and duplicate content - ensuring your important pages get crawled and indexed faster.
What Can You Control with Robots.txt?
- Allow or block specific search engine bots
- Prevent crawling of private or duplicate pages
- Point crawlers to your XML sitemap
- Optimise your site's crawl budget
How to Use the Robots.txt Generator
- Choose the default crawl setting - typically "allow all" unless you have a specific reason to block everything.
- Select any specific search engine bots you want to allow or block by name, such as Googlebot or Bingbot.
- List the folders or pages you want to disallow, such as admin panels, cart pages, or internal search results.
- Enter the full URL of your XML sitemap so the file can point crawlers to it.
- Generate the file and review the resulting rules line by line to confirm nothing important is accidentally blocked.
- Download the robots.txt file and upload it to the root directory of your website, then verify it loads at yourdomain.com/robots.txt.
Developers launching a new site use this tool to create a starting robots.txt before the site goes live, so unfinished or staging pages are not accidentally crawled and indexed. E-commerce store owners rely on it to keep filtered category URLs and internal search result pages, which can create thousands of near-duplicate URLs, out of the crawl queue entirely.
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Frequently asked questions
Is the robots.txt Generator free?
This tool requires an active one-time membership to use - pay once and unlock this tool plus every other gated tool on the site, no subscription, no ads.
Where do I upload the robots.txt file?
It must be placed at the root of your domain (e.g. yoursite.com/robots.txt) - it won't be recognized by search engines if placed in a subfolder.
Can robots.txt stop a page from appearing in Google entirely?
Not reliably on its own - it tells crawlers not to *crawl* a page, but a disallowed page can still be indexed if other sites link to it. Use a noindex meta tag on the page itself if you need it fully excluded from search results.
