Free Robots.txt Generator — Control Your Site's Crawlability
The HB Tools Robots.txt Generator lets you create a professional robots.txt file in seconds. Control which search engine bots can access which pages on your site — without writing a single line of code manually.
What is a Robots.txt File?
A robots.txt file is a plain text file placed at the root of your website (e.g., https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt). It uses the Robots Exclusion Protocol to tell search engine crawlers which URLs they may and may not visit on your site.
Search engines like Google, Bing, and others check this file before crawling your site. If a URL is disallowed, well-behaved bots will skip it.
Key Directives Explained
- User-agent: Specifies which bot the rule applies to. Use
* for all bots.
- Allow: Permits crawling of a specific path, even within a disallowed directory.
- Disallow: Blocks crawling of a specific path or directory.
- Sitemap: Points bots to your XML sitemap for faster page discovery.
- Crawl-delay: Asks bots to wait N seconds between requests (ignored by Googlebot).
Best Practices
- Always include your Sitemap URL in robots.txt for faster indexing.
- Block admin, login, and checkout pages from crawlers — they don't need to be indexed.
- Never rely on robots.txt alone to protect sensitive content — use server-side authentication instead.
- Use specific User-agent names to target individual bots (Googlebot, Bingbot, etc.).
- Test your file with Google Search Console's robots.txt Tester after uploading.
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