Features built for real crawl management
- Multiple user-agent groups with independent Allow and Disallow lists.
- Live preview, one-click copy, and downloadable robots.txt for fast deployment.
- Path tester with explicit verdict, matched rule text, and originating block label.
- Optional sitemap URL and crawl-delay fields with host-specific caveats called out.
How to use this tool
- Model each crawler family (for example * and Googlebot) in its own block.
- Add the narrowest Allow rules first when you need exceptions inside disallowed trees.
- Paste representative URLs from Search Console into the tester before you push live.
- Copy or download the file, upload it to your site root, and re-test with Fetch as Google/Bing.
Practical use cases
Staging environments, faceted ecommerce URLs, internal search result pages, and API documentation often need nuanced crawl controls. Pair this generator with your meta tag strategy so indexing signals stay coherent across HTML and plain-text directives.
Ship confident crawl rules
When redirects also change URL shapes, sketch them with the .htaccess redirect generator so bots encounter consistent patterns end to end.