Robots.txt Generator

Robots.txt is a text file placed in the root directory of a website that controls how crawlers (search engines and AI bots) access the website's content.

According to Google, one of the best practices for maximizing crawl budget if you own a larger website is through the use of robots.txt to manage URL inventory. By blocking URLs with robots.txt, it significantly decreases the chances that the URLs will be indexed. This gives a signal to Google of which pages are important and which are not.

Aside from search engine crawlers, there is also an increasing number of AI bots that scrape content from websites. These bots can be used for training machine learning models, creating new content, etc. If you don't want AI bots to scrape your content, you can use robots.txt to block them. To do this, you'll need to know the user-agent of the AI bot. Once you know the user-agent, you can add a rule to your robots.txt file that blocks the bot from accessing your content.

While the concept of what a robots.txt is might be easy to grasp, adding the rules you want to implement using the correct syntax and implementing it on a website isn't as easy for those without a technical background. In order to enable just about anyone to implement a robots.txt file on their website if required, we have built a robots.txt generator plugin.

All websites built with Konigle come with a default robots.txt file that blocks pages that shouldn't be indexed by Google (e.g., login pages, cart, etc.) and bots that are deemed as "spammy." This file can be imported, edited, and reuploaded, all via the Robots.txt Generator plugin. How convenient!

Also, to ensure that new rules are added using the correct syntax, we have implemented a more familiar interface that allows users to simply select the rules and requirements instead of having to type them out.

To get started with adding a robots.txt file to your website, just start a chat with Tim, and the plugin will be served to you.