Robots.txt Generator, Visual Builder, No Syntax Errors
Build a valid robots.txt file visually. Allow, block, and control exactly which bots can crawl your site, including 2026 AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot. No competitor tool has this yet.
Robots.txt generator tool
Build, download, upload.
Build your rules
Pick a preset or build from scratch. Select which bots to allow, block paths, and toggle AI crawler access. The output updates live.
Copy or download
Copy the generated text to your clipboard, or download it directly as a ready-to-use robots.txt file.
Upload to your domain root
Place the file at your domain root so it's accessible at yourdomain.com/robots.txt, it won't work anywhere else.
What is robots.txt?
Robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain that tells web crawlers which parts of your site they're allowed to access. It's the first thing most well-behaved bots check before crawling anything else, Googlebot, Bingbot, and increasingly, AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot.
What it does not do: robots.txt is not a security measure. It's a voluntary instruction that well-behaved bots choose to follow, it cannot stop a malicious scraper, prevent someone from visiting a disallowed URL directly, or hide sensitive content from anyone determined to find it. Never rely on it to protect private data; use proper authentication instead.
Common mistakes: accidentally disallowing your entire site with Disallow: / under User-agent: *, forgetting to declare your sitemap, and confusing robots.txt with meta robots tags, they control different things and often need to be used together.
AI crawlers in 2026: the landscape has expanded significantly. Beyond traditional search engine bots, you now have crawlers that feed large language models and AI answer engines. Whether to allow them is a genuine strategic decision, not just a technical one, covered further below.
Common presets explained.
/wp-admin/, /wp-includes/, and /cgi-bin/, while explicitly allowing /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, since many plugins need this endpoint accessible even though it's technically inside the admin folder. /cart/, /checkout/, /account/, and /order-history/, pages that are functionally necessary but offer nothing for search engines to index, and can create thin or duplicate content issues if crawled. Should you block AI crawlers?
There's no universally correct answer, it depends on what you're optimising for. Blocking AI crawlers keeps your content out of training data and away from AI-generated summaries that might reduce clicks to your site. But it also risks invisibility in a fast-growing discovery channel: 45% of consumers now use AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini to find local businesses, up from just 6% in 2025 (BrightLocal LCRS 2026). For most local businesses, the safer default is to allow AI crawlers and focus on strengthening the signals, schema markup, review quality, that influence how favourably you're represented when you do appear.
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