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Robots.txt Generator

Create robots.txt files with User-Agent rules, AI blocking, sitemaps, and presets for WordPress, Next.js, and more. Free.

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Robots.txt Generator
The Robots.txt Generator is a free online tool that helps you create a properly formatted robots.txt file — the standard mechanism for instructing web crawlers (Google, Bing, and others) which areas of your website to crawl or avoid. Select user agents, add allow and disallow rules, specify your sitemap URL, and the tool generates a syntactically correct robots.txt file ready to place in your website's root directory.The generator provides a visual interface for building rules that would otherwise require manual text editing. Add directives for specific crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, Yandex, Baidu, or all with the wildcard *), set disallow patterns for directories you want to block from indexing (admin panels, private pages, duplicate content, staging areas), and specify allow exceptions within blocked directories. The tool validates your rules in real time and warns about common mistakes like blocking CSS/JS files that Googlebot needs for rendering or accidentally blocking the entire site.SEO specialists optimize crawl budget by blocking unimportant pages from indexing. Web developers prevent staging environments and admin pages from appearing in search results. Site owners control how AI crawlers access their content. WordPress administrators manage which sections search engines should index. E-commerce managers block internal search results pages, checkout flows, and account pages that create duplicate content. The generated file includes a sitemap reference to help crawlers discover your content efficiently.Robots.txt Generator is part of the facilita.tools SEO toolkit. Available in Portuguese, English, and Spanish, optimized for desktop and mobile browsers.
                

                    

                        
                    

            

        

    

    

        

            
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                    What is robots.txt?
                    
                
                

                    
Robots.txt is a text file placed at the root of a website (example.com/robots.txt) that tells search engine crawlers which pages or sections they can or cannot access. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol and is the first file crawlers check before indexing a site.

                

            

            

                
                    Does robots.txt block pages from Google?
                    
                
                

                    
Robots.txt prevents crawling but not necessarily indexing. Google may still index a URL (showing it in results without a snippet) if other pages link to it. To fully prevent indexing, use the 'noindex' meta tag or X-Robots-Tag HTTP header instead.

                

            

            

                
                    What should I disallow in robots.txt?
                    
                
                

                    
Common disallow paths include: /admin/, /api/, /private/, /tmp/, search results pages, and duplicate content URLs. Never block CSS/JS files as Google needs them to render pages. Also include your sitemap URL for better crawl efficiency.