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Robots.txt Analysis

Our checker evaluates your website's robots.txt file, which provides critical instructions to search engine crawlers about how to index your site.

  • File existence: We verify that your robots.txt file is accessible and returns a proper 200 status code.
  • Critical directives: We check for essential directives such as User-agent and Sitemap.
  • Content analysis: We evaluate the file size and structure to ensure it follows best practices.

Based on these findings, you can optimize your robots.txt file to improve crawler efficiency, protect sensitive content, and enhance your website's indexing.

Robots.txt Best Practices​

❌ Bad Practice​

# Missing User-agent directive
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/

# No Sitemap directive included

# Too complex with redundant rules
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /admin/
User-agent: Bingbot
Disallow: /admin/

# Incorrect syntax
user-agent Googlebot
disallow: /tmp/
allow /important-page.html

# Blocking all search engines (not recommended for public sites)
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

✅ Good Practice​

# Clear specification for all bots
User-agent: *
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /tmp/
Allow: /tmp/important-document.pdf

# Specific instructions for certain bots
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /images/private/

# Sitemap declaration for better indexing
Sitemap: https://coding-freaks.com/sitemap.xml

# Proper syntax with colons and spacing
User-agent: AdsBot-Google
Disallow: /pricing/internal/

# Commented explanations for clarity
# Prevent crawling of search result pages
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?q=