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Standard Webmaster robots.txt Template

Universal crawler control file following the Robots Exclusion Standard to guide Googlebot, Bingbot, and protect private routes.

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# ====================================================================
# Robots Exclusion Protocol (robots.txt)
# Website: https://www.example.com
# Generated: 2026-08-26
# ====================================================================

# Rule 1: Allow all reputable search engines full access to public pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /api/private/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /search?*
Disallow: /*.json$
Disallow: /*.xml$
Allow: /sitemap.xml
Allow: /assets/
Allow: /static/

# Rule 2: Explicit instructions for Googlebot
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /temp/
Allow: /

# Rule 3: Explicit instructions for Bingbot
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /admin/
Crawl-delay: 1

# Rule 4: Block aggressive AI scrapers (Optional)
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /private-docs/

User-agent: CCBot
Disallow: /private-docs/

# XML Sitemap Location (Crucial for SEO discovery)
Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.example.com/sitemap-articles.xml

1,061 chars(946 no spaces)

112 words

42 lines(7 paras)

~1 min read

Size: 1.04 KB

LFutf-8College Graduate (Very Difficult)

Tags:#seo#robots#webmaster#googlebot#crawlers

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