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Robots.txt Generator — Build a Valid File, No Syntax Mistakes

Build a robots.txt file through a visual interface instead of hand-writing directive syntax — Allow/Disallow rules per user-agent, sitemap location, crawl-delay — reducing the chance of a small syntax mistake that accidentally blocks a crawler from your entire site.

How to use Robots.txt

1. Add rules per user-agent (or apply to all with *).
2. Set Allow/Disallow paths.
3. Add your sitemap URL.
4. Copy the generated robots.txt to your site root.

Frequently asked questions

Where does robots.txt need to live?

At the root of your domain — https://example.com/robots.txt — a robots.txt placed anywhere else is not read by crawlers.

Can robots.txt actually keep a page out of Google entirely?

Not reliably — Disallow tells well-behaved crawlers not to fetch the page, but a disallowed URL can still be indexed from external links; use a noindex meta tag on the page itself to reliably keep it out of search results.

What is a common mistake this helps avoid?

A stray Disallow: / under the wildcard user-agent accidentally blocking crawlers from the entire site — building it visually makes that kind of typo easier to spot before publishing.

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