Create production-ready robots.txt files with presets for WordPress, Shopify, and CodeIgniter. Manage search engine crawlers, protect sensitive folders, and control AI answer engine bots (GPTBot, Claude, Perplexity).
Upload this file to the root of your web server (e.g. public_html/robots.txt).
The fundamental protocol for directing automated search and AI crawlers.
Blocking internal search results, admin panels, and dynamic filter loops ensures Googlebot prioritizes crawling high-converting revenue pages.
Explicitly declaring rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot allows your brand to participate in AI answers while protecting gated content.
The integrated Sitemap directive alerts search engines to your complete XML index on every crawl without manual Search Console submissions.
Learn how this tool works, data privacy considerations, and implementation best practices.
The robots.txt file must always be placed directly in the top-level root directory of your website domain (e.g., https://www.yourdomain.com/robots.txt). Search engine spiders will not detect it if located in a subfolder.
Blocking AI bots prevents them from scraping your intellectual property or utilizing your content for model training. However, allowing them enables your brand and website to be cited and recommended inside ChatGPT Search, Claude, and Perplexity answer results.
No. Robots.txt is an advisory protocol for well-behaved web crawlers, not a security firewall. Confidential areas (like user portals or admin dashboards) should always be protected with server-side authentication, password protection, and noindex meta headers.
Adding Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml at the bottom of your robots.txt file provides an immediate roadmap for search spiders upon their first visit, accelerating the discovery and indexing of newly published pages.
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