Robots.txt Visual Generator
Shield your premium website content and proprietary database assets from AI scrapers. Allow legitimate search engine indexers to scan without crawl budget congestion.
1. Standard Indexing Bots
2. AI Content Scraper Shields
Toggling these rules signals AI scrapers that they do not have authority to feed your content into proprietary LLM training databases.
3. SEO Audit Crawlers (Optional)
# -------------------------------------------------- # Robots.txt Generated by SachinJangir.com Scraper Shield # Protect your content while optimizing indexation # -------------------------------------------------- User-agent: Googlebot Allow: / User-agent: Bingbot Allow: / User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Disallow: / User-agent: CCBot Disallow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Disallow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /api/ Disallow: /admin/ Disallow: /checkout/ Sitemap: https://acme.com/sitemap.xml
SEO Tip: Disallowing search crawlers on major conversion landing pages can drop organic rankings. Use page-level meta `noindex` instead of broad robots.txt disallows when blocking specific URLs.
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What Is robots.txt and Why It Matters for SEO
The robots.txt file is a text file at the root of your website (yourdomain.com/robots.txt) that tells web crawlers which pages or sections they are allowed or not allowed to access. It's one of the first files search engines and AI crawlers check when they visit your site.
Common robots.txt Rules Every Website Needs
- Block admin areas:
Disallow: /admin/— Prevent crawlers from wasting budget on login pages and internal dashboards. - Block API endpoints:
Disallow: /api/— API routes don't need to be indexed and can expose unnecessary crawl surface. - Declare your sitemap:
Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml— Always include this so crawlers know where to find your full page index. - AI crawler rules: Explicitly allow or block AI training bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot depending on your content strategy.
Should You Block AI Crawlers in Your robots.txt?
This is a strategic decision. If you want your content to appear in AI-powered search answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews), you should allow AI crawlers. If you want to protect proprietary content from AI training datasets, you can block specific bots. Most marketing websites benefit from allowing AI crawlers for visibility in AI search.
Robots.txt is just one component of technical SEO. Proper configuration of your robots.txt, sitemap, canonical tags, and crawl budget is part of every SEO consulting engagement. A misconfigured robots.txt is one of the fastest ways to accidentally deindex your entire website from Google.
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