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robots.txt controls crawling, not indexing — a distinction that costs people rankings every day. Blocking a page here does not remove it from search results; it only stops crawlers reading it.

Crawling versus indexing

If you want a page out of the index, use a noindex meta tag and leave it crawlable, so the crawler can actually see the directive. Blocking it in robots.txt guarantees the opposite: the page may still be indexed from external links, but with no content to describe it.

Never block CSS or JavaScript needed to render the page. Search engines render pages the way a browser does, and a page they cannot render is a page they cannot judge.

AI crawlers deserve their own rules

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and their peers respect robots.txt, and several are retrieval agents that fetch pages at answer time rather than training crawlers. Blocking those removes you from AI answers entirely.

Decide deliberately which of your content should be readable by AI systems, then say so explicitly with named user-agent blocks rather than relying on the catch-all rule.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The robots.txt file is a simple text file that tells search engine crawlers which pages or files they can or cannot request from your site. It is used mainly to avoid overloading your site with requests.

Not necessarily. `Disallow` rules prevent crawling, but if a page is linked from elsewhere, it can still be indexed (though without content snippet). To fully hide a page, use the `noindex` meta tag instead.

This file MUST act as the 'entry point' for bots, so it must be placed at the root of your domain: `https://your-site.com/robots.txt`.

Yes, you can specify rules for specific bots (User-agents) to `Disallow: /`. However, malicious bots often ignore these rules.

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