Robots.txt Generator

Robots.txt Generator is a free online tool that creates a properly formatted robots.txt file for your website. Select which search engine bots to allow or block, specify directories or pages to exclude from crawling, and add your sitemap URL — the tool outputs a ready-to-upload robots.txt file.

The robots.txt file is a plain-text file placed at the root of your domain (e.g. yourdomain.com/robots.txt) that tells web crawlers which parts of your site they are allowed to access. It is one of the foundational technical SEO files every website should have. Without it, search engine bots crawl everything — including admin pages, duplicate content, internal search results, staging paths, and private API endpoints — which wastes crawl budget and can expose unintended content in search results.

The most important directives are User-agent (which bot the rule applies to), Disallow (paths the bot should not crawl), Allow (exceptions to disallow rules), and Sitemap (the URL of your XML sitemap). User-agent: * applies to all bots. User-agent: Googlebot applies only to Google's crawler. Disallow: /admin/ prevents crawling of the entire admin directory. Disallow: / blocks all crawling — useful for staging sites that should never be indexed.

Common pages to disallow include /admin/, /login/, /cart/, /checkout/, /search/, /tag/, /author/, and any pagination or filter URLs that generate duplicate content. Blocking these conserves crawl budget for your important content pages, helping Googlebot discover and re-crawl your key pages more frequently.

Important: robots.txt is a directive to well-behaved crawlers, not a security mechanism. Malicious bots and scrapers ignore it. Never rely on robots.txt to hide sensitive content — use proper authentication and access controls for that. The Disallow directive tells bots not to crawl a URL; it does not prevent the URL from appearing in search results if other pages link to it.