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Robots.txt Configuration
Generate and manage robots.txt files for controlling search engine crawling behavior.
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Overview
Robots.txt controls how search engine crawlers access your website's pages. AI coding agents can generate, validate, and optimize robots.txt configurations based on your site structure and SEO requirements.
Agents can create robots.txt files with appropriate allow/disallow rules, configure crawl-delay settings, reference sitemap locations, and set up user-agent-specific rules. They understand common patterns for blocking admin areas, API endpoints, and duplicate content.
The workflow includes testing robots.txt rules against specific URLs, ensuring critical pages are not accidentally blocked, and configuring rules for different crawler types. Teams can maintain a robots.txt that balances crawl budget optimization with full content accessibility.
Agents can create robots.txt files with appropriate allow/disallow rules, configure crawl-delay settings, reference sitemap locations, and set up user-agent-specific rules. They understand common patterns for blocking admin areas, API endpoints, and duplicate content.
The workflow includes testing robots.txt rules against specific URLs, ensuring critical pages are not accidentally blocked, and configuring rules for different crawler types. Teams can maintain a robots.txt that balances crawl budget optimization with full content accessibility.
Who Is This For?
- Generate robots.txt with appropriate crawl rules
- Block admin and API routes from crawlers
- Configure user-agent-specific crawling rules
- Validate robots.txt does not block important pages
Installation
Setup for Claude Code
npm install astro-robots-txtConfiguration
# robots.txt
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
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