established robots.txt

robots.txt

The original, universally respected file for telling any automated crawler — search engine or AI — which parts of your site they may access.

Why it exists

It's the one file in this entire toolkit that every major crawler, AI vendor included, is documented to actually check and honour.

How much should you trust it?

A genuine internet standard (RFC 9309), in use since 1994. If you only publish one file from this list, make it this one.

Where it goes

Site root: example.com/robots.txt

Build yours

Fill this in and download robots.txt directly — the same generator lives in the full builder alongside the other 15 files.