robots.txt generator

Create your robots.txt file to control what Google and other search engine and AI bots can crawl on your WordPress site. Once generated, upload it to your web server root folder.

Block crawling of common folders

Crawl rate control (Crawl-delay)

⚠ Google ignores this directive, but other bots like Bing, Yandex and Baidu do respect it. Useful for limiting server resource usage.
Includes by default: CompSpyBot, Curious George, Ezooms, Screaming Frog, rogerbot, yacybot and 30+ bots that typically provide no SEO value but consume server resources.

Warning for online stores: If you block AI bots, your products may not appear in ChatGPT, Gemini or other AI recommendations when users search for purchase suggestions. Note that some bots do not respect robots.txt.

Select the AI bots you want to block:

Generated code

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robots.txt validator

Paste your robots.txt content here to validate its syntax and detect potential issues.