Robots.txt Generator
The Robots.txt Generator creates a properly formatted robots.txt file, which tells search engine crawlers which parts of your site they're allowed or disallowed from crawling.
What Robots.txt Actually Controls (and What It Doesn't)
Robots.txt is a crawling directive, not a security or privacy mechanism — it tells well-behaved crawlers like Googlebot which paths to avoid requesting, but it doesn't password-protect content, and it doesn't guarantee a page stays out of search results (a disallowed page can still appear in search results without a description if other sites link to it). It also can't stop malicious bots that simply ignore the file entirely, since compliance is voluntary.
Common Directives and What They Do
- User-agent — specifies which crawler the following rules apply to (using * applies rules to all crawlers).
- Disallow — blocks a crawler from requesting a specific path, commonly used for admin areas, internal search results, or duplicate content paths.
- Allow — explicitly permits crawling of a path, often used to carve out an exception within a broader disallowed directory.
- Sitemap — points crawlers directly to your sitemap.xml location, helping them discover your site's full URL structure more efficiently.
A Common Mistake Worth Avoiding
Blocking a page in robots.txt does not remove it from search results if it's already indexed and linked from elsewhere — for genuine removal, a noindex meta tag (which requires the page to be crawlable) or Search Console's removal tool is the correct approach instead.
