Free technical SEO utility

Build the file before you upload it.

Turn a few intentional crawl rules into a copyable robots.txt draft. Your paths stay in this browser.

1 · Set the rules

Keep it small and specific.

Before you publish

Crawl control is not access control.

A robots.txt file tells participating crawlers which paths they may request. It is useful for managing crawling, not for hiding sensitive pages or guaranteeing that a URL disappears from search results.

  1. Keep pages and assets that should appear in search accessible to crawlers.
  2. Use a page-level noindex, login, or another appropriate control when the aim is to keep content out of search.
  3. Put the final UTF-8 text file at your site’s root: https://your-domain.example/robots.txt.

Read Google’s robots.txt guidance ↗

Boundary

A draft, not a crawler test.

This generator creates a simple general-crawler group using Allow, Disallow, and an optional sitemap reference. It does not fetch your site, validate a CMS setting, decide whether a rule is safe, or test how a particular crawler will interpret the final file.

Robots exclusion rules are not a security control: paths listed in the file are public, and crawler support or interpretation can vary. Review your deployed file and test it with the tools relevant to your stack.

Read the Robots Exclusion Protocol specification ↗